Tebria

“The scars lined them the same way barked lined trees. But those weren't the worst ones. The ones you couldn't see, those were the ones that streaked the mind, squeezed the spirit, and left you standing outside in the rain naked as birth, demanding that the drops stop touching you.”
― Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets

“...these U-nited States that were neither united nor stately, but were some loose configuration of tepid and petrified men trying to remake the world in their own faded image”
― Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets

“Given enough time, betrayal--no matter how tiny-- makes it way up the steps and sits on the throne as thought it had always belonged there. Maybe it did and it was actually surprise that had no place.”
― Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets

“I was struggling with how I would make up for lost time, but now I know the time was not lost at all. It is just passed.”
― Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand