Buried Beneath the Boarding House Quotes

“She had such faith in everyone she met, and it felt criminal to let her down.”
― Ryan Green, Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

“She’d lived in her own fantasy for so long that it’s hard to say whether she truly believed that when the police went digging in her garden, there would be nothing to find, or if she’d just greatly overestimated her ability to cover her tracks.”
― Ryan Green, Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

“It was hardly surprising that she no longer saw other people as human, only as backing characters in her own grand drama.”
― Ryan Green, Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

“woman who was incapable of that emotion. Back in Business Despite all of the prohibitions against Dorothea”
― Ryan Green, Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

“She was drawn to her family as the only people who’d ever truly cared for her but repulsed by them in equal measure for the associations they provoked”
― Ryan Green, Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

“Even the vague deceptions of her sisters were too close to the painful reality to endure. To feel truly safe in her new life, she had to create more distance from the past, so she set about cobbling together a whole new history for herself out of the only good memories she had — those nights spent in the homes of Mexican families that seemed to care about her, and the loving embrace of her siblings.”
― Ryan Green, Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

“Even preying on the most vulnerable in society, Dorothea’s murderous ways would not go unnoticed forever. All it would take was one victim who was not so easily forgotten.”
― Ryan Green, Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

“Through killing, she could control absolutely everything. She could make the chaos of the world into order. She could make it all fit into her story perfectly.”
― Ryan Green, Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder