The Road Out of Hell Quotes

“Evil is not something instilled in a few unlucky persons by a malicious Lucifer. If we are to understand “evil” at all, we must think of it as a word—an emotional word—we use to describe actions performed by other humans that we experience as breathtakingly horrible, shocking, and, often enough, nauseating.”
― Anthony Flacco, The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders

“And if you can’t trust family, who in this five-cent back-alley butt-fuck of a world can you trust?”
― Anthony Flacco, The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders

“Sanford, this story that my son appears to have instructed you to tell me features a young man who gets shot in the head nine times at close range with a .38 pistol, once in the chest at close range with a .22 rifle, then bashed over the head by you with the ax two or maybe three times, but even then he was still alive and required a final blow from Stewart. And that was also a blow to the head with the ax. At which point this unfortunate fellow finally decided that this world was not for him.”
― Anthony Flacco, The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders

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― Anthony Flacco, The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders