Starvation Heights Quotes

“Only in the campfire-stoked stories of Boy Scouts, bedtime tales baby-sitters employ to frighten bratty charges, or in the sweet delight of grandpas who never grew up, would the stories live on.”
― Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

“As the campfire burned to an ashy bowl of red-hot embers, the boys would ramble on, piling up horror upon horror, like cordwood stacked under a blood-red-barked madrona tree.”
― Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

“the saffron light of the sun smacks the back of the neck, causing baby-fine hairs to adhere to the skin and armpits to rain down, staining the insides of shirtsleeves. On”
― Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

“He could talk a ravenous dog off the back end of a meat wagon.”
― Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

“the woman he alternately loved and tolerated.”
― Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

“And though he could woo and bed any woman he wanted, and had done so with the regularity of a tomcat, he underestimated the tenacity of a woman scorned.”
― Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

“Being rich is the cause of all their problems,” a cousin of lesser means had told others in the family. “Claire and Dorothea are ill because they can afford to be ill.”
― Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

“beloved governess, Margaret Conway.”
― Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

“Pacific Coast and Vancouver Island’s Empress, a stately hotel that held its surroundings like a grand, decorated cake above the seawater in which the island seemed to float.”
― Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

“Claire and Dorothea were unwed and beyond the age of thirty,”
― Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

“Orphaned daughters of a well-to-do English officer in the Imperial Army Medical Service, Dorothea was born in Trichinopoli, India, Claire in London. And though schooled in Switzerland, England, and France and well traveled, the sisters, especially Claire, exhibited a childlike naïveté and innocence that sometimes left them a target of manipulation by those with dubious intentions.”
― Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

“All of what the place had been was the great dream of a woman, a doctor named Linda Burfield Hazzard.”
― Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

“was a magnificent structure for its time and place—a sanitarium of three stories, plus a basement. Dormer windows jutted over a porch that ran the full length; a dark, oak staircase in the grand foyer dominated the interior. There was even a kitchen, an office, and of course, the Treatment Room.”
― Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

“No one could possess a shred of doubt that Olalla’s most famous institution was the sanitarium up on the heights off Orchard Avenue.”
― Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

“Claire and Dorothea are ill because they can afford to be ill.”
― Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest