J. Reuben Appelman > Quotes

“The task force was not going to sacrifice quality for speed, he told the packed room.”
― J. Reuben Appelman, While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students – A Literary Chronicle of the Idaho Student Murders

“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t happened yet.”
― J. Reuben Appelman, While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students – A Literary Chronicle of the Idaho Student Murders

“The savagery was breathtaking, the motivation unimaginable.”
― J. Reuben Appelman, While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students – A Literary Chronicle of the Idaho Student Murders

“Crucially, Bethany slept through another set of headlights, low against the ground, from a sedan that slowly entered the neighborhood, then climbed the hill past 1122 King Road.”
― J. Reuben Appelman, While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students – A Literary Chronicle of the Idaho Student Murders

“Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.” And later: “It’s not all sunshine & rainbows but a good amount of it actually is.”
― J. Reuben Appelman, While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students – A Literary Chronicle of the Idaho Student Murders

“Some people, their particular genius is in taking in, rather than giving out.”
― J. Reuben Appelman, The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit’s Most Notorious Serial Killer

“And I’d loved Ellie like a Springsteen suicide run, all heat and revved-up engines and neither of us caring that the hundred miles of freeway ahead of us might end at a brick wall, the way most people only get to love when they’re young.”
― J. Reuben Appelman, The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit’s Most Notorious Serial Killer

“There is hardly any crime in this little village. There are drug-related crimes, like everywhere else, but not terribly newsworthy ones—crimes of petty theft, shoplifting, and of course domestic assaults, which are violent but statistically stem from addiction and poverty, America’s crimes of the broken heart and soul.”
― J. Reuben Appelman, While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students – A Literary Chronicle of the Idaho Student Murders