The Phantom Prince Quotes

“I am, I thought, capable of holding a hundred different points of view on any one idea at any one time. There is no real me.”
― Elizabeth Kendall, The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy

“I see why people are obsessed with figuring him out. For years, I thought continually about how this same person I loved could do these cruel and violent things. Finally, I was able to let go. I took on this mantra: He’s crazy, and being sane, you will never understand crazy. Just give up. Life your life. You still have it. It’s a gift.”
― Molly Kendall, The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy

“People have suggested that I have survivor’s guilt. I reject that. We all should be alive. What I have is profound sadness and anger that some worthless dirtbag can come along and take away a family’s bright and shining light, leaving a gaping hole that is never to be filled.”
― Elizabeth Kendall, The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy

“And I’ve finally learned that no amount of intense, repetitive thinking is ever going to change the past. I’ve learned what “let it go” means.”
― Elizabeth Kendall, The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy

“A few of the horrendous facts include: He abducted and killed two women in one day and then took me out to dinner that evening. He raped and murdered women and then slept with me. He took my visiting family out for a fun evening of pizza. He then excused himself, went to a bar in South Seattle, found a young woman, and murdered her. The next day he was his charming self at a family event. One day when he was driving to Utah to go to law school, he called from Nampa, Idaho, to tell me he loved me. I learned later that he abducted a young woman that day and murdered her.”
― Elizabeth Kendall, The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy

“is a gift to be able to make mistakes, find solutions, and move forward in life—a gift not to be wasted.”
― Elizabeth Kendall, The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy

“Ted lunged at me, put his hands on my shoulders, and pushed me into the river. The plunge into the icy water took my breath away. I came up sputtering and grabbed the rope on the edge of the raft, too dazed for the moment to do more than hang on. I looked up at Ted and our eyes locked. His face had gone blank, as though he was not there at all. I had a sense he wasn’t seeing me. I struggled to pull myself into the raft. He didn’t move, he didn’t speak. I could find no expression on his face.”
― Elizabeth Kendall, The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy

“Something was very wrong. The pupils of his eyes had become tiny, almost as small as the point of a pencil. One was looking a slightly different direction from the other... I wasn’t really hearing him, I was searching for the person who I knew. That person was receding farther and farther back, away from my eyes. It’s as if the person who I loved was now at the end of a long hallway and we could barely see each other. And then he wasn’t there anymore. But I saw something new seeing me. Something dangerous with those reptilelike eyes.”
― Molly Kendall, The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy

“It is a gift to be able to make mistakes, find solutions, and move forward in life—a gift not to be wasted.”
― Elizabeth Kendall, The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy

“In May 2017, I learned via the Internet that a new Ted Bundy movie was being made, and the story was going to be told from the perspective of Bundy’s longtime girlfriend. I did a quick Internet search and got twenty-one thousand hits—all announcing the news about “my story” being told in a new Ted Bundy movie. I was stunned. How could they tell my story without ever speaking with me?”
― Elizabeth Kendall, The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy