“These are mistakes, not regrets. Regrets are over and done with and a waste of time to rehash. Mistakes, though, are bad moves in the past that might affect the future.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
“I read an article in the September 2014 edition of The Atlantic titled “The Law School Scam.” It’s a fine investigative piece by Paul Campos.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
“lights he was pleased to see that everything was in order.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
“Because of their sacrifice, she had been given the gift of citizenship, a permanent status she had done nothing to earn. They had worked like dogs in a country they were proud of, with the dream of one day belonging. How, exactly, would their removal benefit this great nation of immigrants? It made no sense and seemed unjustly cruel.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
“I read a story once about a guy who killed himself. Some shrink was going on about the futility of trying to understand it. It’s impossible, makes no sense at all. Once a person reaches that point, he’s in another world, one that his survivors will never understand.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
“small bowl of peanuts. “You know this”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
“A major flaw in this defective system is that no LSAT score is too low to be admitted. These dipshit law schools will take anybody who can borrow the federal money, and, as stated, anybody can borrow the federal money.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
“served, which includes house arrest with my little ankle bracelet. So I could spend”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
“million a year, but then he’s not in”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
“defendants free on bail loitering nervously”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
“She fell for the scam that easy federal money could make law school possible for everyone, and took the first bold steps that would lead to Foggy Bottom.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
“He’s such a good boy.” Maybe. Louie had flirted around the edges of the drug scene throughout high school. There were plenty of red flags but his parents had always chosen to ignore them. At every sign of trouble, they had rushed in to defend him and believe his lies. They had enabled Louie, and now the bill was due.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
“being nothing more than a prison. As Todd slowed the car, he said, “It looks like one of those”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
“According to the Post, Immigration and Customs Enforcement maintains fifteen detention centers around the country and on any given day there are 35,000 people in custody. Last year ICE detained over 400,000 undocumented workers and deported about the same number, at a cost of over $20,000 per deportee. The entire detention system eats over $2 billion a year. It’s the largest immigrant detention system in the world. In addition to the fifteen ICE facilities, the Feds contract with hundreds of county jails, juvenile detention centers, and state prisons to house their detainees, at a cost of about 150 bucks a day per person, 350 for a family. Two-thirds of all facilities are run by private companies. The more bodies they have, the more money they make. Homeland Security, which ICE answers to, has a quota, one mandated by Congress. No other law enforcement agency operates on a quota system.” “And conditions are deplorable,” Zola said, as if she knew more than Mark. “Indeed they are. Since there is no independent oversight, the detainees are often subjected to abuse, including long-term solitary confinement and inadequate medical care and bad food. They are vulnerable to assault, even rape. Last year, 150 died in custody. Detainees are often housed with violent criminals. In many cases, legal representation is nonexistent. On paper, ICE has standards for the facilities, but these are not legally enforceable. There is almost no accountability for how the federal funds are spent. The truth is, no one is looking and no one cares, except for the detainees and their families. They are forgotten people.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
“And now, with one semester to go, Mark was staring miserably at the reality of graduating with a combined total, undergrad and law school, principal and interest, of $266,000 in debt.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
“The taxpayers are getting screwed by Congress and the Department of Education.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
“He’d finished college with $60,000 in loans, and no job.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Rooster Bar
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“Each day we stood almost shoulder to shoulder, occupying the same space, breathing the same air, but we remained strangers.”
― M.A. Stacie, quote from Unwritten Rules
“Night is done, gone the moon, gone the stars
From the skies.
Fades the black of night
Comes the morn with rosy light.
Fold your wings, go to sleep,
Rest your gizzards, Safe you'll be for the day.
Glaux is nigh.
Far away is first black,
But it shall seep back
Over field
Over flower
In the twilight hour.
We are home in our tree.
We are owls, we are free.
As we go, this we know
Glaux is nigh.”
― Kathryn Lasky, quote from The Journey
“The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog.”
― Dexter Palmer, quote from The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.”
― Margaret Atwood, quote from The Tent
“He stared at it as if he had caught a live grenade. It was the mummy’s finger.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, quote from You Have to Stop This
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