“when we look in someone’s face and tell them that their spouse or child or parent or sibling has been murdered, the pain is immediate and palpable—and it cuts deep.” — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“I spent one more hour in bed thinking about my dead feather who'd been shot responding to a routine domestic disturbance call and my dead wife who may or may not have known she was pregnant at the time of… — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“Generally, I agree with Stephen King that hope is a dangerous thing. And also that the road to hell is paved with adverbs.” — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“supposed to do that?” I could see the smile in Jen’s eyes in the rearview” — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“Most of the unhappiness and the sometimes-severe depression I've dealt with throughout my life have come not from the losses and injuries I have… — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“I opened a red and white tin of mints. “When you can snatch the Altoid from my hand,” I said, in my best Master… — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“There's a darkness in the world, and that sometimes we know that our only real purpose is just to bear witness to it so… — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“not unlike the unspoken shared knowledge that many cops have with one another, that there’s a darkness in the world, and that sometimes we… — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“It is without doubt a dark and complicated feeling, shared with firemen and soldiers and paramedics and emergency-room workers, that comes from knowing that… — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“What had once been a charming neighborhood of small, quaint bungalows had metastasized over the decades into a nearly seamless mass of bloated, multistoried… — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“The squadroom was empty, as it usually was early on mornings after no one got murdered. I had the place to myself for more… — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“Was I really that much more mature than I had been in college, or was I only more bleak and weary and desperate to… — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“and the way life is really just a series of losses, one after another after another, and how the moment we realize that is… — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“hadn’t checked my personal e-mail in days, and I remembered Patrick mentioning” — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
