S.A. Cosby > Quotes

“Folks like to talk about revenge like it’s a righteous thing but it’s just hate in a nicer suit,”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“When the people you love are gone, it's the things they've touched that keep them alive in your mind”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Tears ran from his eyes and stung his cheeks. Tears for his son. Tears for his wife. Tears for the little girl they had to raise. Tears for who they were and what they all had lost. Each drop felt like it was slicing his face open like a razorblade.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“I ain't gonna lie and say I get you, because I don't. I can't even pretend I know what it must be like to be... you. But if all this has taught me one thing, it's that it ain't about me and what I get. It's about letting people be who they are. And being who you are shouldn't be a death sentence.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“We all choose to be skeptics when the truth is inconvenient.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“It occurred to Buddy Lee that anything could be a weapon if you were dedicated enough. Even love. Especially love.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Sometimes grief is love unexpressed. Other times it’s regret made flesh.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“Life sends us down some strange roads on our way to our destiny.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“You love a person enough and you’ll make excuses for almost anything.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“He had the self-assurance of most mediocre men. They told themselves the world was their oyster but never realized their oyster had turned rancid a long time ago”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Explanations were like assholes. Everyone has one and they are all full of shit.”
― S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

“All I do know is violence begets more violence and all violence is a confession of pain. Hurt people tend to hurt people.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“Terrible people can do good things sometimes. But they like doing the terrible things more.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“A lie can be halfway around the world while the truth is still pulling up his britches,”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“Scott was the type of man who complained about the world being too sensitive these days without ever acknowledging the irony of his own fragility or privilege.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself less,”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“Even the people we loved kept pieces of themselves hidden away from the light.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“He needed your love then. Not now that he's in the ground”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Evil is rarely complicated. It’s just fucking bold.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“But time was a river made of quicksilver. It slipped through his grasp even as it enveloped him”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“That was the thing about violence. When you went looking for it you definitely were going to find it. It just wouldn't be at a time of your own choosing. It jumped up and splattered your nice new boots before you were really ready”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“It occurred to him that no place was more confused about it's past or more terrified of the future than the South.”
― S. A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“It didn’t seem fair for a man to morn someone, abundantly, that he had loved, so miserly.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“The South doesn’t change. You can try to hide the past, but it comes back in ways worse than the way it was before. Terrible ways.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“Sometimes the man wearing the crown ain’t the man that’s supposed to be the king.”
― S.A. Cosby, King of Ashes

“Listen, when you’re a black man in America you live with the weight of people’s low expectations on your back every day. They can crush you right down to the goddamn ground. Think about it like it’s a race. Everybody else has a head start and you dragging those low expectations behind you. Choices give you freedom from those expectations. Allows you to cut ’em loose. Because that’s what freedom is. Being able to let things go. And nothing is more important than freedom. Nothing. You hear me, boy?” Beauregard said. Javon nodded his head. “Alright”
― S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

“Oh, you get the truck. But you also get pulled over four or five times a month because ain’t no way your Black ass can afford a nice truck like this, right? You get the truck but you get followed around in the jewelry store because you know you probably fitting to rob the place, right? You can get the truck but you gotta deal with white ladies clutching their purses when you walk down the street because Fox News done told them you coming to steal their money and their virtue. You get the truck but then you gotta explain to some trigger-happy cop that no, Mr. Officer, you’re not resisting arrest. You get the truck but then you also get two in the back of the head because you reached for your cell phone,” Ike said. He glanced at Buddy Lee.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Ike thought one of the worst things you could give a man was a clipboard. He’d been at the mercy of men with clipboards. They could keep you out of a gated community or put you on a bus to prison. Give a man a clipboard and watch his true nature come out.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“A mistake is a lesson, unless you make the same mistake twice.”
― S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

“the devil can quote the Good Book as well as any angel.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed