Lawrence Schiller > Quotes

“Evils that befall the world are not nearly so often caused by bad men as they are by good men who are silent when an opinion must be voiced.”
― Lawrence Schiller, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town : The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Final Truth

“it wasn't uncommon... that such a girl might die young, but this girl had stayed alive long enough to make her mark, to take up residence in his imagination. to haunt him. now, through her, he mourns and celebrates everything that life has denied him, all the beauty, all the magic. this is how it happens: the dead go away into their solitude, but the young dead stay with us, they color our dreams, they make us wonder about ourselves, that we should be so unlucky, or clumsy, or so downright ordinary as to carry on without them.”
― Lawrence Schiller

“have lifted the window-well grate and climbed through the broken window to the basement and still leave a”
― Lawrence Schiller, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Truth

“tried-and-true methods. Once, he had sifted through a hundred bags of garbage”
― Lawrence Schiller, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Truth

“who this guy Fleet White is. I want to know”
― Lawrence Schiller, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Truth