Razorblade Tears Quotes

“Folks like to talk about revenge like it’s a righteous thing but it’s just hate in a nicer suit,”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“When the people you love are gone, it's the things they've touched that keep them alive in your mind”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“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.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“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.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“It occurred to Buddy Lee that anything could be a weapon if you were dedicated enough. Even love. Especially love.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Life sends us down some strange roads on our way to our destiny.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“You love a person enough and you’ll make excuses for almost anything.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“He had the self-assurance of most mediocre men. They told themselves the world was their oyster but never realized their oyster had turned rancid a long time ago”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“He needed your love then. Not now that he's in the ground”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“It didn’t seem fair for a man to morn someone, abundantly, that he had loved, so miserly.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“That was the thing about violence. When you went looking for it you definitely were going to find it. It just wouldn't be at a time of your own choosing. It jumped up and splattered your nice new boots before you were really ready”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“But time was a river made of quicksilver. It slipped through his grasp even as it enveloped him”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Ike thought one of the worst things you could give a man was a clipboard. He’d been at the mercy of men with clipboards. They could keep you out of a gated community or put you on a bus to prison. Give a man a clipboard and watch his true nature come out.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“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.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Time makes loyalty thin. People shed it like snakeskin.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Human beings were wired to get used to just about anything. That didn't make you hard. It made you indoctrinated.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Oh, you get the truck. But you also get pulled over four or five times a month because ain’t no way your Black ass can afford a nice truck like this, right? You get the truck but you get followed around in the jewelry store because you know you probably fitting to rob the place, right? You can get the truck but you gotta deal with white ladies clutching their purses when you walk down the street because Fox News done told them you coming to steal their money and their virtue. You get the truck but then you gotta explain to some trigger-happy cop that no, Mr. Officer, you’re not resisting arrest. You get the truck but then you also get two in the back of the head because you reached for your cell phone,” Ike said. He glanced at Buddy Lee.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“A man once told me we can’t change the past but we can decide what happens next.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“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.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Most of it is just being respectful of people and accepting them for who they are”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“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.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“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.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“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.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Gerald ain’t the person you told yourself he was. That’s a hard lesson, but it ain’t nothing to be ashamed of, Tangerine. We all learn that lesson or we teach it to somebody.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Chopping up your first body is disgusting. Your second is tiresome. When you're doing your fifteenth, it's all muscle memory.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“No, hate. Folks like to talk about revenge like it’s a righteous thing but it’s just hate in a nicer suit,”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“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.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Human beings were wired to get used to just about anything. That didn’t make you hard. It made you indoctrinated.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“The past few nights had been cool, as the last vestiges of winter refused to cede their kingdom to the spring.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“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.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears