Uvalde Quotes

I also made The Newton Boys with my old friend who gave me my first shot in this business, Richard Linklater. It was about an outlaw gang of brothers who were the most successful train and bank robbers in history. The man I portrayed was “Willis Newton,” who was from my hometown of Uvalde, Texas. One of the originators of outlaw logic, he’d rather shoot the lock than use a key any day.

Nineteen police officers watched over two teachers and nineteen young children bleeding to death.

21 lights snuffed out by the gun lobby.

Shit! Someone else was looking to trade time for Uvalde. I’d hoped my guy Fercho had the exclusive dirt, but apparently, he was in a rat race to deliver the general. And if Fercho lost, I’d get no bonus . . . Then again, Fercho would likely win, it being a long shot that L. Astorquiza—probably the alias of an angry young man in Bogotá’s bohemian Candelaria neighborhood—would have the proof, or the cojones, to go public against a monster like General Uvalde.

You okay, Fercho? They put you on meds, or what?” “Nah. Just that you see all kinds of things when you’re locked down in an eight-by-ten. Another thing I keep seeing? The prosecutor in New York saying yes to my giving them General Uvalde for the deal we want.