Lizzie Borden Quotes

“As for the prayers, I suppose they can’t hurt. I’ve never found much good in them, I’ll confess that here, though I keep such thoughts private when in public company. Who would confide in a physician who claimed no affiliation with God? I still must feed myself, and keep my house. I still need my patients. But too many people believe with too much conviction in what amounts to, at best, a superstition.
I’ve seen science change a patient’s diagnosis, but I’ve never heard a prayer that changed God’s mind about a damn thing..”
― Cherie Priest, Maplecroft

“She collected herself, and rose from the floor. “Until you have a better grasp on what we’re dealing with here, I’d appreciate your immediate proximity.”

I did as she asked. She was the expert, after all.
But what a terrifying thought, that the world’s foremost expert knew only enough to live in horror.”
― Cherie Priest, Maplecroft

“To see the world in a way that is different than the way everyone else sees it is pure genius. It is also insanity."

Mark Hewitt”
― Mark Hewitt, Hunted: The Zodiac Murders

“It was not a Zodiac attack until the Zodiac said it was a Zodiac attack.”
― Mark Hewitt, Hunted: The Zodiac Murders

“I ate and drank what I wanted in Paris. Butter, duck fat, liver fat, triple-cream brie, deep cherry-red wines, pear, clementine and lavender jelly, crème cakes, caviar, escargot in sautéed pine nuts and garlic butter. I did what the French did, I licked my fingers, didn't care if people saw, what they thought. Father would've hated it, would've told me I was uncouth. I ate everything up, ate his money, was delightful everywhere I went. I learned how to wrap my tongue around accented vowels, spoke to this stranger and that. Nobody knew me, didn't expect anything from me. I wanted to stay like that forever.”
― Sarah Schmidt

“Oh Mrs. Churchill, do come over. Someone has killed father." - Lizzie Borden, August 4, 1892”
― Lizzie Borden