Tiffany

“One day soon, you’ll hear a car pull up to your curb, an engine cut out. You’ll hear footsteps coming up your front walk. Like they did for Edward Wayne Edwards, twenty-nine years after he killed Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew, in Sullivan, Wisconsin. Like they did for Kenneth Lee Hicks, thirty years after he killed Lori Billingsley, in Aloha, Oregon.

The doorbell rings.

No side gates are left open. You’re long past leaping over a fence. Take one of your hyper, gulping breaths. Clench your teeth. Inch timidly toward the insistent bell.

This is how it ends for you.

“You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in the dark,” you threatened a victim once.

Open the door. Show us your face.

Walk into the light.”
― Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

“Herbert Jemson was Methodist of the whole cloth: he was notoriously short on theology and a mile long on good works.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“... the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.”
― Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took My Dog

“For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season