Loretta

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. -Benjamin Franklin

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. -James Baldwin

She wore an expression I've only seen in paintings in museums, of a love and a grief so fierce that they forged together to create some new, raw emotion.

There are two types of people who become public defenders: those who believe they can save the world, and those who know damn well they can.

Any public defender who tells you justice is blind is telling you a big fat lie.

If no one ever talks about race in court, how is anything ever supposed to change?

It is amazing how you can look in a mirror your whole life & think you are seeing yourself clearly. Then one day, you peel off a filmy gray layer of hypocrisy, & you realize you've never truly seen yourself at all.

My client hates me. She thinks I'm a racist. Micah: She has a point. You're white and she's not, and you both happen to live in a world where white people have all the power.

It is a strange thing being suddenly motherless. It's like losing a rudder that was keeping me on course, one that I never paid much mind to before now. Who will teach me how to parent, how to deal with the unkindness of strangers, how to be humble? You already did, I realize.

She looks at me, and we laugh....we have more in common than we have differences.

Everyone has prejudices. It's my job to make sure that they work in favor of the person I'm representing.


The Millennials are the me generation. They usually think everything revolves around them, and make decisions based on what's going on in their lives & how it will affect their lives. They're minfields of egocentrism.”
― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

“Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall