The Last Stone Quotes

“It was hard to overestimate the desire of a man living in isolation to talk.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“I pride myself on not making people’s experience shittier.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“Nobody ever tells you when you go into police work that it will require dishonesty.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“in all honestly”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“Criminals saw the man, not the badge, and they liked him, sometimes enough to tell him surprising and damaging things.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“but the goblin was still speaking in riddles.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“she’d had to play along, to pretend—convincingly—sympathy and even amity.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“Mark reiterated how assiduously the FBI and his own department were now gathering evidence against him.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“Many of the things overheard were redolent of deeper knowledge.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“Mileski had once been caught in a home burglary and had been shot in the leg by police. Afterward, he limped.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“He knew there was no road map for this session. That was not how interrogation worked. Conversations were improvisational.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“prone to didactic and random biblical quotations.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“Isolated remnants of the county’s bucolic past remained in blocks of older wood-frame houses stranded between acres of parking lots, strip malls, and big retail outlets. Its population was mixed in every way.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“Both had white hair but still looked hale.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“Today police have new tools for old crimes. DNA testing offers seemingly magic solutions to decades-old mysteries as long as physical evidence has been preserved.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“fierce fraternal tradition,”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“When asked what he did for a living, Dave would answer, “I work for local government,” because if he said he was a cop, the mood instantly stiffened.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“How much sense would it make, after all, for someone involved with a kidnapping to draw attention to himself by claiming to be a witness and telling an elaborate lie?”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“like textual glossolalia.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“Lloyd’s carefully cultivated epistolary support system crumbled.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“He was so out of step with the youthful antiwar fervor of the period that he enlisted in the army at the height of the Vietnam War, only to be thrown out for lying about his age, education, and criminal past.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“One man who had known Lloyd years earlier said flatly that he “hated women.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“Katie assured him that she was professionally nonjudgmental—which was not true; she was the opposite and was revolted by his crimes.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“The system did not punish offenders the way she believed they ought to be punished.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“So making him rattled and weary became a strategy.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“anyone who asserts so often that he is telling the truth probably isn’t.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“A petty criminal, killer, and audacious pedophile, Mileski had inserted himself into the investigation”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

“A fragment of charred human bone was found,”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone