Tasha Coryell > Quotes

“It was painful than an accused serial killer wanted better for me than most of the people I knew.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“I don’t really want to die, I wanted to clarify. I just don’t know how to continue to live.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“There’s a spell that comes over us in our youth,” Dotty says. “We chase after things that we know aren’t good for us”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“William fucks like a man ready to kill, I wrote in the guilty column, but he hasn’t killed me yet.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“hadn’t realized that grieving was standing on the edge of a cliff on a windy day and doing everything in your power to prevent yourself from being knocked over the edge.”
― Tasha Coryell, Matchmaking for Psychopaths

“Men were so scared of women with too many feelings that they never stopped to consider what happened when there were none at all.”
― Tasha Coryell, Matchmaking for Psychopaths

“Sometimes I think about what it would be like if you killed me. It’s about the mourning rather than the death itself, like my life would have more meaning to it in retrospect. Think about all the people that would confess their love for me if I were no longer around to hold them accountable.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“Before long, I was back on the dating apps and talking to a new guy who was promising in his mediocrity.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“I hope everyone remembers the names of your victims as much as they remember you.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“Is it weird to say that I wish we could hug? Can you touch a woman without ending her life? -Hannah”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“Dancing was a lot like being hot, in that confidence was the majority of the battle.”
― Tasha Coryell, Matchmaking for Psychopaths

“It's tricky being a man, isn't it? Liking things is always a confession.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“The cruelty of the internet is that there is no lock. Even posts intended to be private can be found if someone wants to see them enough.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“It never occurred to me to let things end there, for the kiss to be just a kiss. I was always escalating things with men far beyond what they were meant to be and then wondering why I'd left every situation with a wound.”
― Tasha Coryell

“The distance between a romantic comedy and a horror film was never as great as people wanted it to be.”
― Tasha Coryell, Matchmaking for Psychopaths

“Her father looked like a man who processed his emotions through shooting deer in a forest and didn’t know what to do with himself now he was the deer begging for the return of his child.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“Oftentimes, I found it easier to accept the bad things that happened to me than the good, if only because I struggled to find myself worthy of anything rewarding.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“It’s hard to deny yourself small luxuries when you’re denied everything big.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“He's not wrong. There are ways in which the world has destroyed me and there are ways in which I have welcomed that destruction. As much as I want to deny it, there is a kind of pleasure that comes from being tied up with a knife against my throat.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“Everything about being an adult was at least a little bit worse than it looked from a child’s viewpoint.”
― Tasha Coryell, Matchmaking for Psychopaths

“Sometimes the deepest betrayals were things that women did to one another.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“A mistake that people made about psychopaths was that their lies were always vicious.”
― Tasha Coryell, Matchmaking for Psychopaths

“He’s not wrong though. There are ways in which the world has destroyed me and there are ways in which I have welcomed that destruction.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“I checked social media. That was how my brain processed things. I had a free moment at work? Time to look at my phone. There was a catastrophic weather event? Better look online and see what people were doing. Parts of my murdered fiancé's body were arranged as a kind of grotesque Valentine's display in my house? I should check and see if his disembodied limbs posted anything.”
― Tasha Coryell, Matchmaking for Psychopaths

“I wish I could buy you flowers and diamonds. I wish I could hold you at night as you fall asleep. I wish that I could make promises that I could keep.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“William’s handwriting was small and neat, the type of handwriting that belonged to a killer. Of course, I would’ve said that no matter what his writing looked like. I read people as I wanted them to be.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“I didn’t plan to fall in love with an accused serial killer. Nevertheless, my wrists and ankles are bound to a chair, and I can blame only myself.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“There was something peaceful in the knowing. I once read an article online that said the rejuvenating force of a vacation isn't the trip but the anticipation of a break.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“The power of death lies in its inevitability combined with its unpredictability. We all know it’s coming; we just don’t know when and that makes it terrifying.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“From her research, she learned that a lot of high-powered professionals ranked highly on the psychopathy scale.”
― Tasha Coryell, Matchmaking for Psychopaths