Warren Hicks

“It was a long and irritating journey, and by the time they arrived, Kevin was pissed off. His last few days in uniform and he had to spend one of them with Ernie Teal, proof indeed that there was no God.”
― Joy Ellis, The Patient Man

“When you commit to being yourself in any environment, even your presence can be a powerful corrective. Barbara Harris said it so well: “One way to help combat [systemic racism] is to stand firm and be who you are and to force people, therefore, to deal with you as you really are, and not try to become acceptable to people by being something or someone you are not, in the hope of changing their perception about you. I think you stand up to systemic racism by being true to who you are and what you believe, and what you stand for.”
― Michael B. Curry, Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times

“I feel like a fucking chocolate poker,’ he said. ‘What on earth do you say to a man whose wife is on the brink of losing her mind, and whose sister and brother-in-law just died, and now his little niece is lost and possibly abducted?’ ‘Nothing, Matt. Just be there for him, that’s what he needs now. He needs to know he’s not alone.”
― Joy Ellis, The Dying Light

“There’s a word if you lose your parents. You’re an orphan. But there isn’t a word for when you lose your kids. I think that’s because it’s unspeakable.”
― Robin James, Hand of Justice