Britton

“Narrative was my moral language.”
― James Ellroy, My Dark Places

“When power corrupts, it keeps a log of its progress, written into that most sensitive memory device, the human face. Who could withstand the light? What viewer could believe in the war, the system, the countless lies about American freedom, looking into these mug shots of the bought and sold? Hearing the synchronized voices repeat the same formulas, evasive, affectless, cut off from whatever they had once been by promises of what they would never get to collect on?”
― Thomas Pynchon, Vineland

“I guess you never really know what people are really like, do you?” Davy said. “I don’t think anyone really wants to know,” Titus said.”
― S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“I can’t protect you. I can do what I can, teach you as much as I know. But if I’m not there when the world comes to take its bite—and even if I am—there’s no guarantee I can stop it. I can love you, I can support you, but I can’t keep you safe. And that scares the ever-living shit out of me. Every day, every minute, every breath.”
― Dennis Lehane, Small Mercies