“Everyone knew the urge to run from the world; few dared do it.”
― The Children Act
― The Children Act
“The system’s failure to catch killers effectively made black lives cheap.”
― Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
― Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
“Blind luck, to arrive in the world with your properly formed parts in the right place, to be born to parents who were loving, not cruel, or to escape, by geographical or social accident, war or poverty. And therefore to find it so much easier to be virtuous.”
― The Children Act
― The Children Act
“I'd try to explain that it's not really negativity or sadness anymore, it's more just this detached, meaningless fog where you can't feel anything about anything — even the things you love, even fun things — and you're horribly bored and lonely.”
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“This is a book about a very simple idea: where the criminal justice system fails to respond vigorously to violent injury and death, homicide becomes endemic.”
― Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
― Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
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