# In Cold Blood  ## Metadata - Author: [[Truman Capote]] - Full Title: In Cold Blood - Category: #books ## Highlights - Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there. ([Location 86](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC1IRM&location=86)) - If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity. So blow your nose.” ([Location 1159](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC1IRM&location=1159)) - Well, it was a delicate situation. It appeared that legally we weren’t obliged to pay. But morally—that was another matter. Naturally, we decided to do the moral thing.” ([Location 1183](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC1IRM&location=1183)) - ‘God offers us courage, love and hope even though we walk through the shadows of the valley of death. I’m sure he was with them in their last hours. Jesus has never promised us we would not suffer pain or sorrow but He has always said He would be there to help us bear the sorrow and the pain.’ ([Location 1553](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC1IRM&location=1553)) - A belief in God and the rituals surrounding that belief—church every Sunday, grace before meals, prayers before bed—were an important part of the Deweys’ existence. “I don’t see how anyone can sit down to table without wanting to bless it,” Mrs. Dewey once said. ([Location 1712](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC1IRM&location=1712)) - On Monday, the day the last of them left Garden City, the Telegram featured on its front page a letter written by Mr. Howard Fox, of Oregon, Illinois, a brother of Bonnie Clutter. The letter, after expressing gratitude to the townspeople for having opened their “homes and hearts” to the bereaved family, turned into a plea. “There is much resentment in this community [that is, Garden City],” wrote Mr. Fox. “I have even heard on more than one occasion that the man, when found, should be hanged from the nearest tree. Let us not feel this way. The deed is done and taking another life cannot change it. Instead, let us forgive as God would have us do. It is not right that we should hold a grudge in our hearts. The doer of this act is going to find it very difficult indeed to live with himself. His only peace of mind will be when he goes to God for forgiveness. Let us not stand in the way but instead give prayers that he may find his peace.” ([Location 1737](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC1IRM&location=1737))