Ron Franscell > Quotes

“Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.”
― Ron Franscell, Sourtoe Cocktail Club: The Yukon Odyssey Of A Father And Son In Search Of A Mummified Human Toe ... And Everything Else

“Houses, like faces, hide all kinds of memories.”
― Ron Franscell, Angel Fire

“Are there girls in this movie?'

'Sure. There are always girls in movies. There aren't any movies without girls.”
― Ron Franscell, Angel Fire

“potential”
― Ron Franscell, Nightmare at Noon

“Detectives spent their days on heinous orange-brown indoor/outdoor carpeting and, inexplicably, all the walls were painted yellow.”
― Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town

“Survival is an instinct, not a choice.”
― Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: The Murder of Innocence in a Small Town

“Pain is the price we pay for memory. It’s some kind of sin to forget what hurts, as much as it is to forget what makes us smile. Suffering has its meaning, and memory has its graces.”
― Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town

“He was arrested and arraigned before Justice of the Peace Alice Burridge—whose new granddaughter, Amy, had recently been middle-named “Allice” in her honor.”
― Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town

“So the road doesn’t always lead where we’d like to go. It’s just a road, and it just goes. All roads are connected. No road begins and ends without crossing another. And there’s no road someone hasn’t traveled before me. But sometimes the roads get all tangled up.”
― Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town

“Victims were not responsible for what happened to them.”
― Ron Franscell, Delivered from Evil: True Stories of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers and Survived

“Faith is seeing the brilliant countenance of God shining up at us from every creature.”
― Ron Franscell, Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling

“His mother never gave up on him, even when he lashed out at her, took her money, and failed her in so many ways. She was the one constant in a life spent on the wind. She remains his most ardent protector.”
― Ron Franscell, Delivered from Evil: True Stories of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers and Survived

“Every piece of furniture was old and ugly, but functional.”
― Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town

“Etymologists surmise that sometime in the nineteenth century’s Western railroad expansion, the phrase referred to that side of the tracks which, because of prevailing winds, usually received most of the locomotives’ black, sooty smoke.”
― Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town

“have”
― Ron Franscell, Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story