It Happened in Silence Quotes

“The sharpest image I hold from that day are the shiny nailheads in the wood, where someone overdone the hammering to shut the wood-slat crate they sent my brother home in. A note came attached, stiff with condolences from Mr. Mercer, the Estelle Mining owner. Other scrawled words said the company believed they’d recovered most of my brother from the explosion but warned us not to open the lid and check.”
― Karla M. Jay, It Happened in Silence

“Bet them folks working in the brick buildings in Atlanta don’t realize they’re surrounded by ashes and bits of people who died making blocks to build their walls.” He chuckles. “I hope they hear moans and groans at night.”
― Karla M. Jay, It Happened in Silence

“I’m so tired of hate. Of violence caused by lack of understanding. Of loud men with weak morals.”
― Karla M. Jay, It Happened in Silence