While Justice Sleeps Quotes

“Why American history? Other nations have achieved greatness with less hubris and narcissism."

"Agreed. But America is a contradictory and precocious country, sir. We have, in a very short period of time, managed to commit venal sins against our own people and offer the world repeat examples of exceptionalism. Americans are greedy, brilliant, ambitious, and compassionate. We like to remind everyone about our genius, and yet our leaders make fun of smart people. In less than two centuries, we took over more than half a continent, placed a man on the moon, and invented the Clapper. I enjoyed the contrasts."

Wynn continued to watch her, with what Avery perceived as an ounce of amusement on his face. "A nation of favor and folly, one might say. Where justice is known but rarely seen.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Howard Wynn did not suffer boredom or mediocrity well. He felt equally dismissive of willful ignorance—his description of the modern press—and smug stupidity, his bon mot for politicians. To his mind, they were a gang of vapid and arrogant thugs all, who greedily snatched their information from one another like disappearing crumbs as society spiraled merrily toward hell. With the current crop of pundits, bureaucrats, and hired guns in charge, America was destined to repeat the cycles of intellectual torpor that toppled Rome and Greece and Mali and the Incas and every empire that stumbled into short-lived, debauched existence. Show man ignoble work and easy sex, and there went civilization.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Reputation was all you had when you’d been born without the relationships.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Money and power make people irrational.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Don’t stand there holding the ball if a freight train’s headed for you. Can’t play in the second quarter if you’re dead.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“you will find it where it lies, in the space between.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Knowing the law isn’t about the school. It’s about the mind. The heart. About understanding what the law intends as much as reading beneath what it says. Knowing how to find one’s way to the truth.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Not yet.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Agreed. But America is a contradictory and precocious country, sir. We have, in a very short period of time, managed to commit venal sins against our own people and offer the world repeat examples of exceptionalism. Americans are greedy, brilliant, ambitious, and compassionate. We like to remind everyone about our genius, and yet our leaders make fun of smart people. In less than two centuries, we took over more than half a continent, placed a man on the moon, and invented the Clapper. I enjoyed the contrasts.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Too often, these days, he could not remember his own words from moment to moment. Or from afternoon to night.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“The neurologist had warned him that the symptoms would worsen. That the shadows in his once-clear mind would grow fangs and horns.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Apparently, while stationed in Afghanistan, he met a group of scientists working on a special project for a company in India. They’d posited that biogenetic weapons could be developed to target religious groups based on common ancestry. Vance brought it to his superiors; and six weeks later, he was stateside with a military pension and an honorable discharge.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Americans are greedy, brilliant, ambitious, and compassionate. We like to remind everyone about our genius, and yet our leaders make fun of smart people. In less than two centuries, we took over more than half a continent, placed a man on the moon, and invented the Clapper. I enjoyed the contrasts.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Howard Wynn did not suffer boredom or mediocrity well. He felt equally dismissive of willful ignorance—his description of the modern press—and smug stupidity, his bon mot for politicians. To”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Despite knowing how vulnerable technology can be, bureaucrats placed their faith in the myth of privacy.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“anyone who has watched these mergers in the past knows that what gets promised doesn’t necessarily happen.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“America was destined to repeat the cycles of intellectual torpor that toppled Rome and Greece and Mali and the Incas and every empire that stumbled into short-lived, debauched existence. Show man ignoble work and easy sex, and there went civilization.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Why American history? Other nations have achieved greatness with less hubris and narcissism.” “Agreed. But America is a contradictory and precocious country, sir. We have, in a very short period of time, managed to commit venal sins against our own people and offer the world repeat examples of exceptionalism. Americans are greedy, brilliant, ambitious, and compassionate. We like to remind everyone about our genius, and yet our leaders make fun of smart people. In less than two centuries, we took over more than half a continent, placed a man on the moon, and invented the Clapper. I enjoyed the contrasts.” Wynn”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“only thing worse than a tattletale was a person too afraid to tell the truth.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Fair Fight, Fair Count,”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“I worked for Homeland Security, Avery. We watch everything. Usually, though, no one watches us.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Despite years in American schools, she still barely understood the deep divisions between the Left and the Right in a country with so little to argue over.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“One of these indignities she could take—but not all of them.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Can I have your name, please?” “Celeste,” she whispered as the name popped into her head. “Ma’am?” Avery blinked. “What?” “I asked for your name, but I didn’t hear what you said.” He held up a cardboard cup and a marker. “Can you spell Selst for me?”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Betty felt blood and pain, and for a moment, she felt his grip relax as he shifted to hold her arms in one hand. She started to scream again, but he shoved her head against the post a second time. When she struggled, kicking back at him, he trapped her legs with his and pushed something inside her mouth with his free hand.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“The ancestry tests are superficial, but they use a basic premise. The Y chromosome is transmitted from father to son largely without mutations, and it escapes recombination, so it has the best ability to show lineage.” Noah quipped, “Giving new meaning to ‘like father, like son.’ ”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“he”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Hygeia’s”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Show man ignoble work and easy sex, and there went civilization.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps