Quotes About Distantly

Rachel pulled out a blue plastic hairbrush and threw it at the nearest barbarian, beaning him in the eye and making him howl. Sorry I underestimated you, Rachel, I thought distantly. You're actually kind of a hairbrush ninja.

For twenty-five years, Isaac Knapper had lived in my mind as a troubled young man who had learned violence in the projects and had simply acted out what he knew. It was a naïve story line, but it had allowed me to stay distantly sympathetic to him and his family. I felt better about myself for that, but I had no idea that I was participating in the same process that had secured his fate in the first place.