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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.”
― Sylvia Plath

“To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions—there we have none.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Second Common Reader

“In its timeless capacity to embody the human condition, the vampire is a poignant metaphor describing the psychosocial experience of the pariah - the outsider. The vampire is the Other that used to be human. The diseased, the mentally challenged, the homeless and hungry, ......are all vampires in a way; the other who used to be human, the invisible who casts no reflection among us.”
― Katherine Ramsland, The Science of Vampires

“«The last part, and most dangerous, is how we can blend into society with no apparent outstanding characteristics. That is what makes a serial killer so dangerous and hard to detect.»”
― Katherine Ramsland, Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer

“For Dennis Rader, life was good—both of them.”
― Katherine Ramsland, Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer

“The hallmark of a psychopath is the failure to feel remorse. However, psychopaths demonstrate other significant behaviors. For example, psychopaths seem unable to read social cues. Hence, to pass as normal, they mimic others. They may be high-functioning intellectually and able to appreciate the difference between right and wrong, but they generally lack the ability to weigh risk or recognize quid pro quo. They rarely form a life plan. They also fail to respond normally to the threat of punishment and don’t grasp the emotional implications of their behavior.”
― Katherine Ramsland, Psychopath

“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”
― James Ellroy

“America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.”
― James Ellroy

“Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.”
― James Ellroy