And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed — Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
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And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence. If there were no paper, Carter felt, the entire judicial system would collapse and disappear.

— Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
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