solstice

“People are allowed to change for the better, you know. But it's kind of hard when you won't let them.”
― Lindsey Ouimet, (Not Quite) The Same Old Song

“Yet he was still out there blending in, a man whose ordinariness was his mask.”
― Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

“I want him captured; I don’t care who he is. Looking at such a man’s face is anticlimactic; attaching a name, even more so. We know what he did; any information beyond that will inevitably feel pedestrian, pale, somehow cliché: “My mother was cruel. I hate women. I never had a family. . . .” And so on. I want to know more about true, complete people, not dirty scraps of humans.”
― Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

“If you can’t beat them, leave them. Good morals do not improve bad association. It’s a reverse that will only drive to regret.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1