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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“Even the people we loved kept pieces of themselves hidden away from the light.”
― 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

“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

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

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

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

“Power without empathy leads to ruin,”
― S.A. Cosby, King of Ashes

“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

“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

“Human beings were wired to get used to just about anything. That didn't make you hard. It made you indoctrinated.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“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

“He still loved the man, but it was in those painful moments that he realized adults didn’t really know more than kids. That everyone was making it up as they went along and religion was just another crutch, like liquor or weed.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“Money is like acid. It burns through everything. Friendships, family, lovers, husbands and wives. Whatever bond you think you have, money will make that shit dissolve.”
― S.A. Cosby, King of Ashes