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American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2) QUOTES

American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2) QUOTES

21 " Keep an eye on Pinkerton. Don’t shoot any civilians. Or any women you happen to see. Women who might already be there, for example. Women who might also be civilians. And friends of mine. I guess what I’m saying, Ricky, is this: If things get bad, you just shoot Pinkerton. OK?” “Yes, sir.” “We’ll just carve out the slugs, chuck him in the lake, and shrug in boyish wonder when we’re questioned later. "

― Derek B. Miller , American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

22 " I mean . . . if cops killed a white kid everyone would be going nuts. If that white kid’s aunt ended up dead on a street corner it would be headline news. So why if they shoot a black kid, is it only the black people who are going nuts? "

― Derek B. Miller , American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

23 " The adults are either speaking to each other, focusing on the children, or staring—defeated—toward some imagined horizon, hoping that either a new lover or else death itself will come to take them away from this shiny place. "

― Derek B. Miller , American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

24 " Women, apparently, are far more likely to have mental health problems than men—which doesn’t make any sense to me because men are obviously more insane, judging by their behavior "

― Derek B. Miller , American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

25 " I am personally going to make it my job to ensure that we send the right souls to heaven and not the wrong ones. How about that for a day’s work?” “How about we just solve the case with the facts and let justice have its day?” “Isn’t that what I just said?” “No.” “I thought it was. "

― Derek B. Miller , American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

26 " Where was I before I was born?” she said. “That’s what they all ask.” “Who?” “Children. Adults. All of us. Where was I? Before there was a where. Before there was an I. It is inconceivable,” she’d said, “for there to be no self and no place to put it. That’s what it will be like. Like falling backwards into a pocket of space that constricts and then pops out of existence. "

― Derek B. Miller , American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

27 " What we’re up against now is a conservative movement anchored in a way of seeing Americanness that says that any attention to group problems, or trying to actively support diversity through representation is actually divisive and discriminatory itself. This, by the way, is why they call liberals un-American. Any attention to group suffering or group needs is divisive in their view. People "

― Derek B. Miller , American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

28 " The patrons are male and the wait staff not. The men sit on stools all wearing beige or blue trousers. Thick belts peek out from shirttails floating above bulging waists. They hunch over food that is making them sicker and older but tastes familiar and comforting and reminds them of happier times when they were not here. "

― Derek B. Miller , American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

29 " So tell us your story, Marcus. And be reborn in the way that God meant it most—not by finding Christ, but by recovering your spirit and your place among us; not there in heaven but here in the dirt of upstate New York, where everything that was once in motion finally comes to rest. "

― Derek B. Miller , American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

30 " Ma’am, are you on any medication?” “No.” “Are you supposed to be?” Irv can’t recall the last time a blonde made him nervous. Redheads, obviously, but not blondes. "

― Derek B. Miller , American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

31 " It did not startle Sigrid, as a little girl, to learn that her mother died as much as it baffled her that her mother would continue to be dead each morning and repeatedly not return. "

― Derek B. Miller , American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)