But they both knew that words were weapons too, and when fashioned into a story their power was almost limitless. - Louise Penny

They didn’t need proof. All a woman had to be was alive. Just being a woman was, in the church’s eyes, evil.”
“But there must’ve been a reason,” said Gabri.
“Is there a reason gay, lesbian, and transgender people are attacked?” asked Ruth. “Is there a reason Black men are shot? Is there a reason women are raped, abused, refused abortions, groomed and sold as sex slaves?”
“Murdered,” said Myrna, looking at the bouquet of white roses on the kitchen island.

But I understand your doubts. They're what make you a great man, not your certainties.

But sometimes that comfort was an illusion. Masquerading as protecting, while actually imprisoning.