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This was a case to ruin you, to utterly wreck you for the rest of your life because how can people do this?
How do you put yourself back together when the pieces permanently lost are the only reasons anyone’s looking at you?
We shouldn’t have to fix ourselves if we don’t want to. We shouldn’t have to be strong or brave or hopeful or any such bullshit. Mum has always emphatically stated that it’s okay to not be okay. We don’t owe that to anyone else.
Everyone has an opinion, everyone has a theory. Everyone has their own notion of what justice means.
The public steals tragedies from victims. It sounds strange, I know, but I think you may be one of the few people who’ll understand what I mean by that. These things happened to us, to our loved ones, but it hits the news and suddenly everyone with a TV or computer feels like they’re entitled to our reactions and recoveries.
“The murders all take place within a two-month period. The earliest is in mid-March, the latest almost mid-May. There’s something about the time of year, something about spring that sets this guy off.”
A patient man isn’t worried about getting caught.
Princesses become queens, and there’s never been a queen undeserving of burning.
Under the copper shock of blood, you can taste the sweetness of honeysuckle.
Mum is the biggest reason I can say I’m broken, and the reason I know that’s okay.
“They won’t start the fire, but they’ll dance around it if it will keep them warm.”
He doesn’t repeat flowers, and he doesn’t taunt. Whatever the jonquils mean—if they are from the killer—it’s only an opening move.
“Don’t be grateful. That means being glad terrible things are happening.”
Vic would be disappointed if I broke an agent; Eddison would be pissed if I broke myself.
Every victim has a flower, and it has a meaning, something that ties it to the girl in the killer’s mind.
Chavi wore a crown of silk chrysanthemums,
“Do they mention her?” “Keely Rudolph of Sharpsburg, Maryland. They even say her school. Her fucking middle school.”
Too real. Having been here, the media has no respect for victims, they only see a story.
You were contemplating killing her for her own lack of modesty, but this seals it. You can’t let her corrupt other girls like this.
“And that’s where Landon crosses the line this guy has drawn. He thinks of Priya as his, and Landon was encroaching.”
“You were protecting her. In nosing around Landon, you were protecting Priya. He probably saw you as an ally.”
