Rachel

“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

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“The best way to know someone was to look at their library.”
― Eva Leigh, Scandal Takes the Stage

“We don't want to see our kids and grandchildren be the first generation in the modern history of America to have a lower standard of living than their parents.”
― Bernie Sanders, The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class