Stark Street starts down by the river, cuts through the center of the city, and runs straight to hell.
“Maybe nobody cares about you when you are alive, but lots of people take an interest once you are dead.”
― Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
― Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
“I asked him if there was any effective treatment for people like Bundy. “He paused for a moment and said, ‘Only a sledgehammer between the eyes.”
― The Stranger Beside Me
― The Stranger Beside Me
“The only clue I had was that my dog (who liked everyone) didn’t like Ted at all. Whenever he bent over my desk at the Crisis Clinic, she growled and the hackles on her neck stood up. The lesson is clear: Pay attention to your dog!”
― The Stranger Beside Me
― The Stranger Beside Me
“Because the white world demonstrated in every possible way that he, a black boy, had to live within the murdering boundaries of racial restrictions, I had raised him to believe that he had a say in the living of his life, and that barring accidents, he should have a say in the dying of his death.”
― The Heart of a Woman
― The Heart of a Woman
“Once you’ve got to the end, and you know what happens, it’s your job to make it look like you knew exactly what you were doing all along”
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