“There's always the question of what to call an unknown perpetrator in police reports. The choice is often "the suspect," occasionally "the offender," or sometimes simply "the man." Whoever wrote the Danville reports elected to use a term that was stark and unambiguous in its charge, its tone of reproach as if a finger were pointing from the very page. The term affected me the moment I read it. It became my private shorthand for the EAR, the simple term I returned to when I lay awake at three a.m. cycling through a hoarder's collection of murky half clues and indistinct facial features. I admired the plainness of its unblinking claim.
The responsible.”
― I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
The responsible.”
― I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
“Remember that misuse of language can lead to miscommunication, and that miscommunication leads to everything that has ever happened in the whole of the world.”
― Welcome to Night Vale
― Welcome to Night Vale
“You have always been the worst of my children," he said. "Be sure not to dishonor me."
"I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.”
― Circe
"I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.”
― Circe
“She didn’t have a good reason for most of what she did. Mostly, she went by what seemed right in the moment, and justified it to herself later, and in this way she was no different than anyone else she knew.”
― Welcome to Night Vale
― Welcome to Night Vale
“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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