In the Waning Light

by Loreth Anne White

but readers of true crime expected to see justice prevail. That was the appeal of the genre. It made people feel a little more in control of a world where bad things happened to good people. They gravitated to the genre because it gave them real-life heroes—cops, prosecutors, judges who helped bring closure to victims. Who righted the natural order of things. It showed there was recourse. It restored faith.

acceptance is at the heart of love. Differences are what make the world a wonderful place.

When you relinquished life, you relinquished your own story, the ability to tell it, shape it the way you wanted the world to see it.

we create the idea of monsters in order to externalize the bad that potentially lurks within us all, and we call this monster a devil, or beast, so we can examine it objectively, without having to see the beast in our own eyes when we look into the mirror.”

“Home” is simply a name, a word, but it’s a strong one; stronger than any magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

finally understood how, sometimes, “Home” is not a place. It’s a person . . .