Tell Me No Lies by Elizabeth Lowell

"Art isn't a luxury or an investment. It's the soul of humanity made tangible." Loc 2266

"Where sons once lived with parents, now a wife and husband live alone. A single grandchild is shared among four family-hungry grandparents. A single child grows alone, never sharing, never learning the needs of others."....."The government tries to fill rooms emptied of the extended family. We care for the sick. We feed the poor. We punish the evil. We reward the earnest."...."It is not enough. When the child's parents die, so does the child's history. There is no fabric of interlocking generations. There is no continuity." Loc 6514

Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver

This ended up being an even more interesting read because I was finishing the book at the same time the George Zimmerman murder trial was coming to a close. I thought the book was slow starting, but once he got into the trial I found it fascinating. My quotes:

"This is the story of a murder, of a murder trial, and of some of the people who engaged or became enmeshed in the proceedings. Enmeshed is a good word, for murder, of all crimes, seems to possess to a greater degree than any other that compelling magnetic quality that draws people helplessly into its outspreading net, frequently to their surprise, and occasionally to their horror." prologue

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they ought to be." p. 262