Ashley

“Why did that one friend scoot her chair away from me when I told her I “empathized but didn’t sympathize” with every woman in this book?

I don’t think our obsession stems from the fact that we are all secretly violent, using the serial killer to enact our darkest fantasies. I think it comes from our enduring love of stories.”
― Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History

“Sadness is melancholy. Depression is a black hole of despair. I always imagine it’s like drowning. There are short bursts of fresh air, like Alice, but the past, the hopelessness, the guilt, and self-loathing is a pair of lead shoes that always pull me back under.”
― Kim Holden, The Other Side

“If crimes reflect the anxieties of our time, then today is the era of the mass murderer, the terrorist. Our violent delights still lead to violent ends, but the ends change as the decades ebb and flow.”
― Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History

“A kiss should feel like you’ve been plunged into an abyss that you may never surface from, or it isn’t worth doing.”
― Kim Holden, The Other Side