“No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isn’t really forgiven until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face.” HateHonestyLetting GoForgivenessAngerRevenge Book:Volt Source: Volt
“...Helen sipped peppermint schnapps and considered the world made of her design. My religion is keeping peace, she thought. It hadn't begun that way, was nothing she'd planned, but now she saw that's how it was. I just ran a grocery, she thought. I don't want this. I ain't the one to make the world right.” JusticeHonestyIntegrityLaw EnforcementEpiphanyPeacekeeper Book:Volt Source: Volt
“You think some are bad or evil or whatnot, but somewhere along the way they were someone's baby, suckling the teat like anybody. Then something puts a volt in 'em and they ain't the same no more.” CharacterEvilWickedness Author:Alan Heathcock
“Grief was a demon of possession. When people talked of time healing wounds, they only meant that over time you become accustomed to that demon inside you, and what at first felt like an invasive presence, alien and nefarious, slowly became integrated into your being, the imp of sorrow crouched within you for the remainder of your days.” GriefGrief And LossGrief Quotes Book:40 Source: 40
“I wish I could take my brain and put it inside your head,” Winslow said. “Just for a moment. Then you’d know what all I can’t find how to say.” LossGriefGrievingEmotional PainInarticulateEmotional Wounds Book:Volt Source: Volt
“Sometimes I wish I was in the movies...Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody’d know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I’d just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man.” UnhappinessRunning AwayEscapeDisassociation Book:Volt Source: Volt
“Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her parents' hearts. But what Helen knew, what she'd seen in those woods, would be too much for them, for everybody.” JusticeRevengeRetributionLoss Of FaithJustice Without MercyThe Big Peace Book:Volt Source: Volt