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“People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts.”
Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
“The first lie of an addict is diminishment. Diminishing what happened, how much you drank, how awful your behavior was. You try to diminish everything, but you're not fooling anyone, only making yourself small.”
Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
“When we are young, we are motivated by desire, and as we get older, by fear. Maybe as life goes on and your heart gets broken a few times, it's easier to be attached to things rather than people.”
Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
“She needed to understand what drove these people to commit such heinous acts. She needed to believe we were different from them.”
Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
“I was told to 'act as if.' Act as if you are sober, confident, unafraid. Act until it's no longer an act.”
Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

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