M. William Phelps > Quotes

“The bottom line is that heat kills more people than any other natural disaster, and yet heat waves go unnamed.”
― M. William Phelps, The Devil's Rooming House: The True Story of America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer

“As the years pass by, we’ll glance at faded photographs recalling memories shared with special friends and family, never wanting it to end. Memories are the only thing left within the end.” Judy”
― M. William Phelps, Murderers' Row: A Collection of Shocking True Crime Stories

“How did the apartment look?” Riggle wondered. “Nothing was out of place.”
― M. William Phelps, Don't Tell a Soul

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”—Franz Kafka”
― M. William Phelps, Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer

“Some would call this “volcanic rage”—a mind state that murderers need to enter in order to commit the crime—although they are well aware of what’s going on around them. Another”
― M. William Phelps, Obsessed

“My life and my mind, I realized, were screwed up enough without me adding to it with drugs.”
― M. William Phelps, I'd Kill For You

“Ben Espey sat at his desk and looked over his notes.”
― M. William Phelps, Murder In The Heartland

“It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.”
― M. William Phelps, Bad Girls

“He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.”—William Hazlitt”
― M. William Phelps, Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer

“A fictional character living in a nonfiction world.”
― M. William Phelps, Lethal Guardian

“Lots of women are doing time for love and fear.”
― M. William Phelps, Targeted: A Deputy, Her Love Affairs, A Brutal Murder

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”—Fyodor Dostoyevsky”
― M. William Phelps, Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer

“Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.”—Dr. Wayne W. Dyer”
― M. William Phelps, Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer

“could be stretching the truth”
― M. William Phelps, Perfect Poison: A Female Serial Killer's Deadly Medicine

“In this moment of our lives, if there is one thing about my brother I can count on, it’s that his addiction runs his life and has him on a strict schedule.”
― M. William Phelps, Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer

“Psychopaths: people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don’t give a shit… .”—Elmore Leonard”
― M. William Phelps, Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer

“The bottom line is that heat kills more people than any other natural disaster, and yet heat waves go unnamed. They do not blow
in with 100-mile-per-hour winds, a blistering, swirling shadowlike image on radar with a defined eye, or shake the ground in an intense display of drama. No. Heat is a silent killer. It slowly and stealthily moves into a region like a ghost, targeting the vulnerable and unsuspecting.”
― M. William Phelps, The Devil's Rooming House: The True Story of America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer

“Well, evil to some is always good to others.”—Jane Austen, Emma”
― M. William Phelps, Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer

“what”
― M. William Phelps, Never See Them Again

“Company,”
― M. William Phelps, Beautifully Cruel

“I considered that most serial killers, when you come down to it, are cowards. They’re full of fear.”
― M. William Phelps, Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer

“The gut speaks—and rarely lies—of what is and what is to come.”
― M. William Phelps, Where Monsters Hide: Sex, Murder, and Madness in the Midwest

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”—C.S. Lewis”
― M. William Phelps, Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer

“Serial killers suck the life out of the people around them. They harbor an effortless capability of donning what psychopathy pioneer and psychiatrist Hervey Cleckley coined in 1941 as “the mask of sanity.” It was Cleckley’s work before his death in 1984 that flexed Canadian psychologist Dr. Robert Hare’s mental muscle enough to develop his Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R): twenty characteristics defining psychopathic behavior. Used properly, the PCL-R checklist is an accurate way to determine the psychopath from the non-psychopath.”
― M. William Phelps, Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer

“limits”
― M. William Phelps, Obsessed

“The way they both believed that as long as they told a lie long enough, to as many people as possible, that it should be believed because they said it. Community”
― M. William Phelps, We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”—Virginia Woolf”
― M. William Phelps, Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer

“NE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ARSENICAL POISONING cases on record (which could never be emphatically proven beyond a reasonable doubt) is, of course, that of Napoleon Bonaparte, who was said to have been poisoned to death with arsenic over a period of time by one (or several) of his own men. Regardless”
― M. William Phelps, The Devil's Rooming House: The True Story of America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer

“Well, evil to some is always good to others.” —Jane Austen, Emma”
― M. William Phelps, Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer

“it was too”
― M. William Phelps, Sleep In Heavenly Peace