Modern Pen Pals Quotes

Maybe I should start being less scared of the unknown.

It’s funny how with him the conversations are so simple, yet enough. Words are unnecessary between us; we communicate through silent glances.

True freedom is knowing you can’t control everything. When you know that, you can control your reaction towards it. That’s the only thing you can control: how you react to things, how you let others affect you. When you get in control of your feelings, of yourself, you get in control of your world… and ahead of people who can’t control themselves.

Most of Alice’s friendships now felt like they were virtual. Like the pen pals of her youth. It was so easy to go years without seeing someone in person. To keep up-to-date just through the pictures they posted of their dog, or their baby, or their lunch.

The system doesn’t want the public to have sympathy for a convicted murderer or any other type of inmate. Those who control the prison industrial complex want people to forget about the souls trapped within its confines. It thrives on dehumanization, profits from the warehousing of humans, and is the truest form the United States has of modern-day slavery. They don’t want people to know the inmates labor for the prison’s financial gain while being denied fair wages and basic human rights. My execution will restore the public's indifference to their plight.