Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

by Ronan Farrow

“Is this the way the world works?” she wondered. “That men get away with this?”

“Sometimes,” he said, “it’s best to let someone else go first.”

“Money and power enabled, and the legal system has enabled,”

“Ultimately, the reason Harvey Weinstein followed the route he did is because he was allowed to, and that’s our fault. As a culture that’s our fault.”

Everyone was always too afraid to talk.”

You don’t know if you’re fighting because you’re right, or because of your ego, and your desire to win, and to avoid confirming what everyone thought—that you were young, and inexperienced, and in over your head.

Perpetrators of sexual abuse can also be survivors of it.

“You couldn’t save someone you love, and now you think you can save everyone.”

Everything was designed to make me feel comfortable before it happened. And then the shame in what happened was also designed to keep me quiet.”

was like a hanging piece of meat,” she said. “I would walk into work with a knot in my stomach. I would come home and cry.”

“It was as close as you could get to a woman just melting in front of you in pain,”

“You know, the press is as much part of our democracy as Congress or the executive branch or the judicial branch. It has to keep things in check. And when the powerful control the press, or make the press useless, if the people can’t trust the press, the people lose. And the powerful can do what they want.”