I had found a spiritual path that beckoned me, but I had no map or compass to guide my journey.
“She laughed, and as she did, Potts felt as if he were watching a dark, silent mountain suddenly blink to life, illuminated by a hundred lights from a small, quaint village that had lived on the mountainside for a hundred years, the village appearing out of nowhere, all the lights aglow at once. Every feature of her face glowed. He found himself wanting to tell her every sorrow he ever knew,”
― Deacon King Kong
― Deacon King Kong
“Her smile displayed a raw, natural beauty that caught Potts off guard. The woman, he thought, was all good handwriting.”
― Deacon King Kong
― Deacon King Kong
“Everybody went to jail in the Cause eventually. You could be the tiniest ant able to slip into a crack in the sidewalk, or a rocket ship that flew fast enough to break the speed of sound, it didn’t matter. When society dropped its hammer on your head, well, there it is.”
― Deacon King Kong
― Deacon King Kong
“You’ve got to be strong to get old.”
― Deacon King Kong
― Deacon King Kong
“In that moment he realized that all the experience of thirty-two years in the NYPD and all the formal police training in the world was useless when the smile of someone you suddenly care about finds the bow that wraps your heart and undoes it.”
― Deacon King Kong
― Deacon King Kong
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