Your House Will Pay
Steph Cha
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There wasn’t much around: a warehouse, a wire fence, scrubby bushes on hard yellow ground, power lines draped across an empty, burning sky.”
“Smoke rose in a pillar like something from the Bible, dark and alive and climbing, becoming one with the gray sky.”
“How dare this girl come to their table, pleading about injustice, acting like his sister was a dead body she'd discovered, one they had to help her do something about right now. When they'd buried her a thousand times over. When they'd done their best, the only ways they knew how, to keep her alive.”
“Grace snapped. “And what, you’re so great? Because you turned on the woman who raised you? Who sacrificed everything to come to a foreign country so her kids could have a better life? Why do you think you’re so goddamned enlightened in the first place? It’s because Mom and Dad busted their asses so you could go to a fancy Ivy League college. Have you ever worked in a convenience store in South Central? Have you ever even been inside a convenience store in South Central?” Grace heard Miriam open her mouth and close it again, and Grace could tell that she’d been inside a convenience store in South Central but thought better of saying it. Probably research for an essay.”
“Grace had never seen her mother look so scared, and she felt pity for her for a moment, and a cruel, ecstatic thrill of power.”
“Every day there had been rotten cops in the news and still she had been bamboozled. ‘I mean, they’re supposed to protect people, right? How can they be so bad at their jobs?’ ‘They protect people from other people. Question is, who are people, and who are other people?”
“When they figure out who she is, they gonna wonder why some sweet old Korean lady got herself shot. They gonna ask if she got enemies. And here we are, two black-ass felons with a blood grudge.”
“What he wanted now was what he already had: his hard-earned plot of life, tilled daily with diligence and dignity. His family. His home. His job.”
“She could feel it like a glass wall, real and dangerous, but only made visible in certain lights—by dirt or fingerprints, or the glint of things reflected. Alfonso Curiel flashed against it, throwing its contours into relief, and she wanted to reach out and touch it. To confirm it was there and feel its resistance. To learn its shape and size, so she might find a way to remove it without shatter.”
“Palmdale was a far cry from the old place. No hustle, no bustle. No corner stores, no helicopters, no laughing teens running wild. Just arid suburbia with a coarse, plain face. It was boring here, and Shawn had come to love the bland peace of it over the years.”
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Book Keywords:
black-lives-matter, police-brutality, police
