Dark Pattern (The Naturalist, #4)

by Andrew Mayne

We all like to come close to death but not actually touch it.

I’m sure there’s some evolutionary advantage to wanting to get close enough to death and evil to gain some awareness without getting too close.

“Have you ever put something together long, long after it happened? Like, you have enough perspective to see what was really going on? You were too close at the time, but later on you got the whole picture?”

Hindsight 20/20

We plan, God laughs.

“Every wrong idea is ahead of its time, Teddy. It’s not really a compliment. The key is to have a brilliant idea that’s of its time. That’s how the world changes.”

Who knows what else is out there? There could be a super-Earth there with a massive ocean and a giant kraken swimming underneath, contemplating their own existence.”

only half jest. There could be patterns we haven’t even thought about when it comes to organized serial killers.