We shall not pretend that life is all beauty; we shall, as tragic poets always do, start with evil, and only then show that the noblest response to evil is not flight from it but the courage to face it.
I remember after Sandy Hook, President Barack Obama said that if a tragedy of such enormity didn't change hearts, minds, and legislation, then nothing would. I'm afraid he might have been right.
Before the electrodes were attached to his head he'd lost everything tangible: money, property, children; even his rights as a citizen had been taken away from him by order of the court….I will never know all that was in his head at that time, nor will anyone else.
3mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
