“Think of what the place has been through. Burning, then freezing. Consider its proclivities: abusive and abused. Moisture seeps from every moss pore and lichen crevice. It has survived unspeakable pressures, once compressed by ice thousands of feet deep, sheets creeping across the surface, cresting in glacial slow motion every few thousand years and then falling back, drop by freezing drop. This is not terra firma. The longer we look, the more we see how it's broken. And where it will break again.”
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Caroline Fraser,
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
