The Darkest Night Quotes

“He was arrested and arraigned before Justice of the Peace Alice Burridge—whose new granddaughter, Amy, had recently been middle-named “Allice” in her honor.”
― Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town

“Detectives spent their days on heinous orange-brown indoor/outdoor carpeting and, inexplicably, all the walls were painted yellow.”
― Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town

“Every piece of furniture was old and ugly, but functional.”
― Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town

“Etymologists surmise that sometime in the nineteenth century’s Western railroad expansion, the phrase referred to that side of the tracks which, because of prevailing winds, usually received most of the locomotives’ black, sooty smoke.”
― Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town

“So the road doesn’t always lead where we’d like to go. It’s just a road, and it just goes. All roads are connected. No road begins and ends without crossing another. And there’s no road someone hasn’t traveled before me. But sometimes the roads get all tangled up.”
― Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town

“Survival is an instinct, not a choice.”
― Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: The Murder of Innocence in a Small Town

“Pain is the price we pay for memory. It’s some kind of sin to forget what hurts, as much as it is to forget what makes us smile. Suffering has its meaning, and memory has its graces.”
― Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town