A Death in Belmont Quotes

“The story about Bessie Goldberg that I heard from my parents was that a nice old lady had been killed down the street and an innocent black man went to prison for the crime. Meanwhile--unknown to anyone--a violent psychopath named Al was working alone at our house all day and probably committed the murder. In our family this story eventually acquired the tidy symbolism of a folk tale. Roy Smith was a stand-in for everything that was decent but utterly defenseless. Albert DeSalvo, of course, was a stand-in for pure random evil.”
― Sebastian Junger, A Death in Belmont

“They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover.”
― Sebastian Junger, A Death in Belmont