Helen Prejean Quote

Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time--weeks, months, years, decades even.

Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States (ed. Vintage, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307787699