Charlie

“The Marshall family then sued a county police officer who had been identified as a member of the Klan. The officer testified that about half of the forty Klan members known to him were also in the police department and that his superiors condoned officers’ Klan membership, as long as the information did not become public.”
― Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

“Victor smiled at the challenge. A quick step forward, and Eli tried to step back on instinct but met the wall and Victor met him. The knife slid in. It was easier than he imagined. Like a vanishing act, one moment the metal glinted and the next it was gone, buried in Eli’s stomach to the hilt.”
― Victoria E. Schwab, Vicious

“He carefully pulled back to gaze down at her. For the first time”
― Jacquelyn Benson, Tomb of the Sun King

“she looked at him—just looked at him, with this quiet, conscious acceptance, as if to say Maybe you’re hiding the whole story, but if you need to, I’ll let you. And something about that look leaned on every last one of Zaf’s pressure points—not in a painful way, not exactly. More like a massage that hurt really fucking good.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown