“Her heart kept splitting inside her. Growing and breaking, rended and rendered, reminding her that she was so, so sick of death. All it carried. All it buried.”
“But their roots went deep, bound them together in a collective memory. With each new arrival, they pieced together more of their past, built more of their future.”
“The loss inside him kept piling—vertebrae shattered, finger bones lost, gravestone past and guillotine future, ghost woman and her ghost curls,”
“Don't show emotion." Kurt Löwe gave his son a rough shake, "Don't you ever show emotion. Tears are weakness. And I won't have any son of mine being weak. You're going to stand here until you top crying.”
“Don’t let your heart get in the way of your head.”
“Here was a people. A family. A faith.
Her people. Her family. Her faith.
Here was a silence broken.”
“Fear is not an excuse,” Yael told him. “Fear is being human.”
“All these skills I've taught you--they're burdens. Not gifts. Taking a life takes something from me. When you choose to kill, make sure it is for the right reasons. Make sure the decision is something you can live with.”
“It will take time to heal. Just like all the others.”
“A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.”
“The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law--all made palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity.”
“The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.”
“King as thou art, free speech at least is mine. To make reply; in this I am thy peer.”
“They called you the Glue"
"The Glue?"
"Yeah. Probably because you're kind of the glue that holds us all together”
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