“Slowly, tears began to tip over again from her swollen eyelids, leaving sad, pale trails in her ruined makeup, and as always when he made a witness cry, James felt uncomfortably like the school bully.” GriefEmotionPoliceGuiltWitness Book:Bitter Legacy Source: Bitter Legacy
“James felt as he always felt waiting to deliver this kind of news: like an emotional mugger, smashing into other people's calm lives, leaving agony and loss behind. The aloofness of his role built his guilt, his distance from their pain. That he could introduce himself to people to deliver news that ruined them, with no wounds of his own to show in solidarity. He was the professional, like a doctor, slicing through their existence then going back to his own clean life.” WisdomDeathLossMysteryEmpathyPoliceThrillerMourning Book:Bitter Legacy Source: Bitter Legacy