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“Lynn was shaking hands with the man who said that, for thirty thousand dollars, he would’ve been John Ransom‘s wheelman…What do you say to such a man? She didn’t know whether to thank Bill Rhodes for his testimony, or to grab him by the shirt collar and shriek into his face, why didn’t you say something in March 1987? Why didn’t you save my parents lives?” - 335-336

“She had always imagined a solution would come within days or weeks, not months or years. She had always assumed an arrested would come before the pain lost its edge, before her obsession destroyed her and her family—and before she had to strain, eyes closed, to summon the image of her parents faces as she last saw them.” - 211

“Once that threshold was crossed, there would be no more indulging the fantasy that it had all been some terrible mistake. She would see it, smell it, know it in her bones. It wasn’t that she feared the house or the killer—only the certainty that her parents were truly gone.” - 58