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“Evil isn’t a monster,” he said. “It’s a school. It’s a ledger. It’s a vegetable patch. And it survives only as long as good people look away. I looked away once. I won't again.”

Elwood hesitated. The arc of the moral universe was long, but Turner’s match was short. For the first time, Elwood saw that bending toward justice might require becoming fire. Nickel Boys

“Not the buildings,” Turner said, his voice low and steady. “The records. The ledgers. Harwood’s little black book of who paid him to keep their bastard sons quiet. The county commissioner’s nephew. The judge’s own grandboy. We burn the past, and the future has no chains.” “Evil isn’t a monster,” he said