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Nona Williams
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By the late 1970s, “the golden age of serial murderers,” as a crime historian will call it, is well underway.[29] In earlier decades, these perpetrators could be measured in the double digits, but the numbers climb sharply after World War
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“Everyone has a story they tell themselves about themselves. Even if they don’t explicitly acknowledge it, their minds are at work retelling or editing or updating a narrative that explains or excuses why they have spent their time on earth as they have.”
― The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
― The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
“she wore exactly the sort of high heels with red soles Melania Trump favored when visiting prisons for toddlers.”
― Embassy Wife
― Embassy Wife
“At the same time there was something delicate in his face, almost childlike, cosseted, something I couldn’t name but today I know is simply a trait of the upper crust, who are pampered their entire lives.”
― The King of Warsaw
― The King of Warsaw
“Elected officials who believe their own political survival is more important than anything else threaten the survival of our republic, no matter what they tell themselves to justify their cowardice.”
― Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
― Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
“We look for sense and we search for patterns or a grand design in the desperate attempt to make meaning out of what frightens us the most – the possibility that there is no meaning. Bad things happen to good people. Evil prospers. Young fit men get sick and die. Children starve. Teenagers are murdered in bomb blasts at music concerts. There is no reason or divine plan. Crap things happen. End of.”
― The Letter
― The Letter
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