" All people are born into one line or another,’ the doctor said to me. ‘I was born in the line without height. Your son was born in this line where reading is a struggle for him.’” Smith paused. “Ever since then I’ve tried to use that example when people ask me what it’s like to work in the jail. I tell them we were all born in these lines. I was born into a line with a loving family and resources. Most of the people in the jail were born in a different line—a line without family, or resources, or money. I tell them we all could have been born into different lines than we were. "

― Christine Montross , Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration