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The only real immortality is doing something worth remembering.”
“ ‘To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.’ ”
Professor Fogle was a person of interest in Emerson’s murder. He taught a class on serial killers. And somehow, his teaching assistant had found me.
“The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said that anyone who fought monsters had to fight becoming a monster himself. ‘If you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.’
Clark?”
Most people built walls to protect themselves. Dean did it to protect everyone else.
Geoffrey with a G,
“Conrad Mayler.
Bryce Anderson.
Clark.
Bryce,
D...
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dark car had pulled into the driveway. Agent Sterling
“Christopher!”
“I always wanted a girl,” Trina
Motive for jealousy
solemn stare on his face in each.
He didn’t want Dean’s father’s picture on his walls.
Another motive for jealousy
“He was only nine when his own father left, and well . .
“What color is the truck?” I asked. “It’s hard to say,” Trina said, her voice taking on the tone she’d used repeatedly with Christopher. “He never washes it. But last I checked, it was black.”
Some people said that broken bones grew back stronger. On the good days, I told myself that was true, that each time the world tried to break me, I became a little less breakable. On the bad days, I suspected that I would always be broken, that parts of me would never be quite right—and that those were the parts that made me good at the job. Those were the parts that made this house and the people in it home.
“When the odds are bad,” she said, removing something from one of them, “you change the rules.”
