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Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson

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“You found me. Thank god, because I’ve hardly spoken to anyone tonight.” “Really?” he said. “No. I’m sick of people.” “Am I people?” “You sure look like one.”

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“You do that a lot. Bring up serial killer stuff when the topic turns more serious."
"What could be more serious than mass murder?"
He gave me that look that immediately made me feel all prickly inside, all you don't know me, but then also a little fuck, you really know me.”
― Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

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“What was the difference? To love someone was to need them, to open yourself up to pain and rejection and loss. Of course I'd dreamed of finding the person I could fully trust, and of course these last few weeks I'd harbored the occasional hope that that person might be Sam. But when it came down to it, there was way too much risk involved. I'd been on my own for so long, and I knew exactly how to make that work for my life.”
― Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

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“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

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“True crime is a perfect example of that," I said. "At its heart, it's about what do we know about humanity's capacity for evil and what should we be afraid of. The answers to those questions can tell us a lot, especially when you look at the intersections of privilege and power, who are telling the stories, who are the subjects of them. I know a lot of people think true crime is a pulp genre, and not worthy of analysis, but the fact that it's so closely tied to mainstream fixations makes it more worthy. If I can help students to pay attention to those stories and the way they're presented or received, I'd feel like I'd done my job.”
― Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

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“I feel like I grew up afraid of so many things," I said. "There's just so much uncertainty in life, especially when you're a kid . . . you don't know why your dad is upset, or why your mom puts up with it, or whether you'll ever have a true friend you could talk to. It sounds twisted, but by the time I was a teenager, there was something almost comforting about reading about serial killers. It was like, here, be afraid of this. Focus on this. There's uncertainty, and open questions, but it'll all get wrapped up at the end. Justice will be served, the victims will be remembered, whatever. It was only when I started reading and rereading some of those books more closely that I started questioning what justice meant, or truth, or even fear.”
― Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

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