Top 60 S.A. Cosby Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Tears ran from his eyes and stung his cheeks. Tears for his son. Tears for his wife. Tears for the little girl they had to raise. Tears for who they were and what they all had lost. Each drop felt like it was slicing his face open like a razorblade.”

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2. “Ike didn’t want to be a king. A king never sleeps. He ends up like Slice. Staring at everyone and anticipating how they might try to come for his crown.”

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3. “It’s easier to keep your head in the sand than it is to try and see things from somebody else’s point of view. There’s a reason why they say ignorance is bliss.”

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4. “I ain’t gonna lie and say I get you, because I don’t. I can’t even pretend I know what it must be like to be... you. But if all this has taught me one thing, it’s that it ain’t about me and what I get. It’s about letting people be who they are. And being who you are shouldn’t be a death sentence.”

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5. “This is who I am. I can’t change. I don’t want to, really. But for once I’m gonna put this devil inside me to good use.”

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6. “He so crooked they gonna have to screw him into the ground when he dies,” Boonie.”

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7. “Sometimes grief is love unexpressed. Other times it’s regret made flesh.”

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8. “The thing about loving someone was that they knew all your pressure points. They knew all the spots that were open and raw. You let them into your heart and they cased the place.”

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9. “It’s like that story. The wolf gets to the turnip patch at six in the morning. The rabbit been there and gone,” Ike said. “We the rabbits, in that story, right?” Buddy Lee said. “Yeah, but we gonna eat them like we’re the wolves,” Ike said.”

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10. “Progress had left this part of town behind. It was abandoned just like the store. A blacktop wasteland haunted by the phantoms of the past.”

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11. “Life sends us down some strange roads on our way to our destiny.”

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12. “When the people you love are gone, it’s the things they’ve touched that keep them alive in your mind.”

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13. “I go looking I might find them. And if I find them, I’ll kill them,” he said. The words came out plain and without much inflection. She’d known him since he was fifteen and she was thirteen. Mya knew he wasn’t exaggerating. Ike waited for her to say he couldn’t do that. He stood there waiting for her to say let the cops handle it. He waited and waited.”

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14. “But if all this has taught me one thing, it’s that it ain’t about me and what I get. It’s about letting people be who they are. And being who you are shouldn’t be a goddamn death sentence.”

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15. “Ike knew what gave Buddy Lee’s eyes that murderous sheen. It was the rage coursing through his veins. A poison that killed off certain parts of yourself. The parts that made you weak. It was coursing through Ike’s veins, too. It was powerful but deadly. It made you determined but reckless. It gave you an edge that could turn against you and slit your own throat.”

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16. “It occurred to Buddy Lee that anything could be a weapon if you were dedicated enough. Even love. Especially love.”

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17. “The truth is no one can be fully protected. Safety is an illusion. There is no safety. Just downtime between tragedies.”

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18. “A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he was meant to be. FRANK A. CLARK.”

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19. “Terrible people can do good things sometimes. But they like doing the terrible things more. I’ll see you tomorrow,” Titus said.”

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20. “Davy, if your cousin ain’t a racist, he is mighty goddamn comfortable with being around racists. That’s a distinction without a difference.”

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21. “Yet it was those shards, the pieces of her heart, that cut into his own broken covenant of faith and made those words bleed from his mouth.”

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22. “But comfortable is to art what sugar is to tea. Too much and you ruin it.”

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23. “Waiting for the world to shed tears for your pain was like waiting for a statue to speak. So you filed the reports, you answered the emails. You carried on as best you could. And if you were like Titus, if you wore a badge on your chest, you promised you’d do all you could to find the Last Wolf and peel off his mask. Show the world the face of the monster.”

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24. “My Daddy never lied about who or what he was. He owned it. I was the one who put him on a pedestal. He never climbed up there. But me? I lied all the time. I lied to you. I lied to myself. I thought I could be an outlaw part of the time and the rest of the time be a daddy and a husband. That was the lie. Truth is I’m an outlaw all.”

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25. “Preston thought capitalism was great if people who looked like you were the ones sitting in the Capitol. For everyone else, well, sometimes it was like trying to climb a greased pole in mittens.”

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26. “When he stepped off the porch, he could feel the sun beating down on him like he owed it money.”

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27. “The only person who knew your weak spots better than the woman who raised you was the woman who shared your bed.”

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28. “A man once told me we can’t change the past but we can decide what happens next.”

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29. “There was a chasm everyone had to traverse at one time or another called failure. Fear was the bridge that carried you over that crevasse.”

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30. “When the people you love are gone, it’s the things they’ve touched that keep them alive in your mind. A picture, a shirt, a poem, a pair of baby shoes. They become anchors that help you keep their memory from drifting away.”

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31. “Darlene’s a good woman, but she could burn water,” Gilby said.”

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32. “But time was a river made of quicksilver. It slipped through his grasp even as it enveloped him. Twenty became forty. Winter became spring, and before he knew it he was an old man burying his son and wondering where in the hell that river had taken him.”

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33. “Boonie’s sitting on ten rolls of platinum for you.”

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34. “We all choose to be skeptics when the truth is inconvenient.”

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35. “He needed your love then. Not now that he’s in the ground.”

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36. “A lack of movement inside the house had allowed a pall to settle over the entire structure. The air had a stale, spoiled scent. A thin layer of dust covered most of the exposed surfaces. Death had laid his cold hand on this place and stilled its heart.”

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37. “His father used to say if they ever wrecked the only thing seat belts would do was make it hard for the undertaker to get them out the car.”

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38. “It was like they traded a secular addiction for a sanctified one.”

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39. “He still loved the man, but it was in those painful moments that he realized adults didn’t really know more than kids. That everyone was making it up as they went along and religion was just another crutch, like liquor or weed.”

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40. “His empty hands. Hands that had held his boy when he was barely ten minutes old. The hands that had shown him how to tie his shoes. The hands that had rubbed salve on his chest when he’d had the flu. That had waved goodbye to him in court with shackles tight around his wrists. Rough callused hands that he hid in his pockets when Isiah’s husband had offered to shake them.”

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41. “He had a gun in every room of the house. They were like good friends who were always down to do bad things.”

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42. “Terrible people can do good things sometimes. But they like doing the terrible things more.”

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43. “But time was a river made of quicksilver. It slipped through his grasp even as it enveloped him.”

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44. “You love a person enough and you’ll make excuses for almost anything.”

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45. “Over the last few months death had carved a valley between them as deep as grief and as wide as heartbreak.”

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46. “All I do know is violence begets more violence and all violence is a confession of pain. Hurt people tend to hurt people.”

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47. “What if me trying to hold the world together is what keeps me from falling apart?”

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48. “Bye, Ronnie.” “Wait, what time you get off?” “About fifteen minutes after you roll off me and go to sleep,” Jenny said and hung up the phone.”

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49. “The needle on the temperature gauge was so far in the red, it needed to file for bankruptcy.”

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50. “Scott was the type of man who complained about the world being too sensitive these days without ever acknowledging the irony of his own fragility or privilege.”

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