Maddie

“...cynical and hardened as I believed myself to be at twenty-four, I had never that pity might, in fact, be just another facet of love.”
― Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field

“there were no images of screaming, angry crowds; no shots of policemen and soldiers advancing slowly shoulder go shoulder; no bodies sprawled in the street; no blazing houses. It was as if it weren't happening at all.”
― Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field

“I am aware that I am taking no risks by recounting any of this, that, for people like me, safe and protected, even the greatest risk is, ultimately, indulgence”
― Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field

“This is often the way crimes get solved- through a side door. The clue that led to New York’s “son of Sam” killings was a parking ticket David Berkowitz was issued for parking his Ford Galaxie too close to a fire hydrant near the site of his final murder”
― John Edward Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter