Anthony W.

“It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.’ ”
― Wright Thompson, The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

“We have felt that we came to know God by means of these thoughts and images, but in reality it is impossible for the infinite God to be captured by our finite thoughts, images, and feelings. Now, when everything suddenly becomes dark, when our ordinary ways of knowing are blinded, it is because the light of God has suddenly been turned on”
― Thomas H. Green, When the Well Runs Dry: Prayer Beyond the Beginnings

“up, to interrogate the present to see what of the past remains. Because our present day potential for violence is alive and undiminished.”
― Wright Thompson, The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

“I knelt down. The dirt felt cool as it ran through my fingers. Nothing hits the nose quite like freshly tilled topsoil, carrying the scent of life and death. The ground around here smells rotten after a rain, gray buckshot petrichor, grabbing tires and axles and feet. I’ve lost shoes in this mud. Delta folks call it gumbo and it feels hungry, aggressive even, as if it actively wants to pull more living things down into its stinking maw.”
― Wright Thompson, The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi