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Avery
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“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
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“It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
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“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.”
― I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
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.”
― I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Avery’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Avery’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Biography, Classics, Comics, Crime, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, History, Horror, Manga, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Psychology, Science, Thriller, Nonfiction, and true-crime
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