We don't operate off a script or know where this is headed.

You've had four years (in jail) to think about how you're going to answer these unanswerable questions.

It's the truth coming from somebody willing to lie.

If your wife is not having sex with you, you felt it was all right to go outside of marriage to have sex?

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

The past had already been dealt with, to one end or another, it was certain, fixed, the horror of it was already over.
For the living at least. They grieved, yes, but they were not trapped in the terror of the moment.
Not so for my poor, elegant wraiths. They were like the old-fashioned zoetropes you find at the seaside: a tiny slice of a world in a box, brief yet somehow also eternal.