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“At the time of Jack’s trial, Florida outpaced all other states in the nation in the number of people it sentenced to death. The Sunshine State was part of the so-called Death Belt: the band of southern states, stretching from Florida to Texas, that accounted for more than 90 percent of executions carried out in the late twentieth century.”

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“Life’s a game show. You choose a door and get stuck with what’s behind it. She chose the wrong door.”

“He displayed not the nervous energy of someone wrestling with a difficult moral choice but the calm confidence of someone who had made peace with trading lives for personal advantage.”

“Being a parent, she’s discovered, is in large part about hoping everything turns out the way it’s supposed to and holding back the despair that comes with realizing there’s a good chance stuff might actually go wrong.”

“There’s that old saw about opposites attracting, but there’s a difference between opposites and people who are just flat-out wrong for each other.”

“Throughout the campaign, the burgeoning AIDS epidemic never became an issue of import. Neither candidate made any public pronouncement on the administration’s “number-one health priority,” and no reporter thought the issue significant enough to raise. In fact, President Reagan had never publicly spoken the word AIDS or ever alluded to the fact that he was aware that an epidemic existed.”

“Throughout the campaign, the burgeoning AIDS epidemic never became an issue of import. Neither candidate made any public pronouncement on the administration’s “number-one health priority,” and no reporter thought the issue significant enough to raise. In fact, President Reagan had never publicly spoken the word AIDS or ever alluded to the fact that he was aware that an epidemic existed.”

“I think love is a choice you make to devote yourself to someone, to nurture them, surpport them, be by their side, walk through life with them,” she said. “But the emails that I saw from John Diamond really were over the top, were idealizing, were clingy, were demanding. That to me is not genuine love.”

“Marty had been killed for money, said Bagwell, “nothing more than money.”

“Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.”

“She heard the house door that night when he came in, and she heard that he was using the clothes washer, and that that was weird because who would wash clothes at that time of night?”😣

“They were killing Jews, Catholics, and gays for eight years and nobody did a thing.” In an instant, his fury turned to ice. He knew exactly how the Nazis could kill for eight years without anyone doing anything. Nobody cared. That was what was happening with AIDS. People were dying, and nobody cared.”

“Unknown to Michelle, very early on, police were searching the darkest parts of Michelle and Marty’s lives.”

"By the day that Dr. Edward Brandt declared AIDS to be the administration’s top health priority, 1,450 Americans had contracted the disease and 558 had died."

"But their great efforts to keep me alive were due to something greater than sentiment,” Irena now realized. “They knew that if I died, the only trace of the children would die too."

“Isn’t it a shame you have the problem in San Francisco,” said one prominent Japanese scientist. “It’s because you have homosexuals.” He paused a moment and confided, “Of course, we don’t have homosexuals here.”🙄

"Iza was a dark horse, and even Irena wasn’t privy to all her friend’s secrets. Sharing secrets was too dangerous."

"Promiscuity was rampant because in an all-male subculture there was nobody to say “no”—no moderating role like that a woman plays in the heterosexual milieu."

“The problem lies not in evil personalities or traitorous acts, but rather in the political orientation which believes that an oppressed group gets what it needs by being careful not to offend the powerful," Bill reported to the Milk Club after the platform compromise. “The problem lies in the desire to protect the little that we have gotten by not risking a fight for what we deserve."

"I wasn’t sure what to expect: an angry judge, contempt of court, or a hard takedown by the security counselor. I didn’t care. I opened the door and ran in."

"There was no right or wrong in Ala’s mind; there were only the dictates of circumstance and conscience."

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.’”

"Could their love survive this? The thought nagged at her. It would break her heart to lose Adam. He drew back into himself and his beloved books. He retreated to the past, trying to find answers somewhere in the dry histories of ancient empires for the nightmare present."

"Maybe there was something to be said about living a life of delusion."

"Some 40,000 people died in the bombings of Warsaw. The toll on the front lines was even more staggering. Nearly 70,000 men were dead. Another 630,000 were even now en route to Germany and the Soviet Union as prisoners of war."

"Had I forgotten how to feel? Had I forgotten how to fight, not as a lawyer, but as a man?"

"I can go two ways with you. I can use you to cut a deal with the cops. Or, dude, I chop your f*cking head off for a souvenir and just run back to Mexico with the 75 K I already got. Once I’m back in Margaritaville, no one can find me. So who’s the tool now?"

"I had seen Elijah’s picture, so I knew him to be smallish, but the man they brought in looked like the back end of a hunger strike."

"I have experience with sudden violence. And violence is like anything else, the more you do it, the more you get used to it. And the better you are at it."

"Lying on my bed, idly scrolling through my emails, I notice his phone charging by the side table, and hearing the sound of running water, I can’t help myself. I reach for it and go straight to his photos." 😯