Samantha

“I'd run back in to grab it, and I may have left the door ajar. That didn't sound like me, especially after I'd read about the Vampire of Sacramento and how he'd never hit up a house with a locked door, feeling it was a sign he was unwelcome.”
― Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

“Having to be two people at once, both temptress and caregiver, wife and mother, minds are split in half. Even if somehow they didn't, if they managed to keep themselves whole, the act of mothering was torture. Breasts reduced to milk bags for animal rooting, sleep all but impossible to get, and the mind constantly twisted with wonder and worry for this helpless thing that would become no less helpless as it got older. An entire life devoted to the care and nurturing of another, always fearing, always convinced you were screwing up. Knowing deep down that whatever happened would be your fault.

The surprising thing was that more mothers didn't lose their minds.”
― Katrina Monroe, Graveyard of Lost Children

“One argument I'd made in my introduction was that true crime was ultimately about place, and time, with the criminal act themselves just the lens through which an author sought to understand the broader cultural context.”
― Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

“That is a very relatable example," I said. "Fuck treadmills. If I'm running it better be because the Sunrise Slayer is after me.”
― Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers