The trick isn’t getting rid of your shit—it’s letting go of your bullshit.
“Why are you so interested in crime?” people ask me, and I always go back to that moment in the alley, the shards of a dead girl’s Walkman in my hands. I need to see his face. He loses his power when we know his face.”
― I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
― I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
“People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.”
― The Crow
― The Crow
“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
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falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
―
“My mother was, and will always be, the most complicated relationship of my life.”
― I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
― I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
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