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every time we engage with words, we make choices.
Raisa might have had a few close calls with other cars’ bumpers. But anyone could seem like a bad driver in Atlanta traffic.
while the silver in his dark hair and the wrinkles by his eyes told of a life lived,
I’m a profiler more than a psychologist.” “What’s the difference?” “The big picture for psychologists is healing,” Kilkenny said. “Mine is predicting.”
“Copycat killers are all about putting distance between themselves and the murder. They can don a persona or a mask. They tend to be people who have hovered on the edge of violence, but could never cross over it as themselves. Copycat killings allow their brain to pretend it’s not really them doing it.”
“Everyone wants to make things a conspiracy.
“The best way to get anyone to change their mind is not to lecture them from a place of superiority, but to become a part of their in-group and then alter their opinions from the inside.”
“Everyone thinks they’re above falling down rabbit holes, too. But harmful obsession is like a hop, skip, and a jump away from a harmless hyperfixation,
Everyone thinks they’re above falling down rabbit holes.
Delaney wasn’t made for love. She was made for death.
The taste of that disappointment sat sour on her tongue.
what made her leap to that level of defensiveness? Only someone who already thought of themselves as a monster came into a confrontation braced for that accusation.
She also didn’t believe in an afterlife. Her sins weren’t being tallied somewhere and held up against everything she’d done right.
