The Wasp Trap Quotes

“Finally, there was a more fundamental ethical question. If she had uncovered a bona fide psychopath, did she have a responsibility to do something about it? To warn the world about him? Again, from her reading she knew not everyone with this disorder was dangerous; not criminally, anyway. There was plenty in the literature about how people who shared these traits became successful politicians or CEOs. Their lack of conscience made it easier for them to climb ladders. There were theories that many of the most powerful people in the world were psychopaths, and some of them were able to do more damage than their criminal counterparts.”
― Mark Edwards, The Wasp Trap

“Ah, who was he kidding? They’d call him Posh Boy and kick the crap out of him every day.”
― Mark Edwards, The Wasp Trap

“The clock’s still ticking, you know. Tick tock. Tick fucking tock.”
― Mark Edwards, The Wasp Trap

“You think he might be a psychopath?”
― Mark Edwards, The Wasp Trap

“Something about that smile, the way it had vanished, made the hairs on my arms stand on end.”
― Mark Edwards, The Wasp Trap

“If any of us were a psychopath, I already had a good idea who it would be.”
― Mark Edwards, The Wasp Trap