Find Me Quotes

“haboobs, those nasty walls of sand and dust that moved in like dense clouds, making travel, and even breathing, near impossible.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“Unless a person’s memory could be erased, there were no fresh starts, only progression. Even if you burned down a house where bad things had happened, the house would still be there in your mind, regardless.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“An idea, a notion, love, hate, formed in childhood, was hard to redirect because it was so ingrained and so accepted as normal.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“There was no starting over for most people. That was a misconception. Unless a person’s memory could be erased, there were no fresh starts, only progression.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“People always left a little of themselves behind once they were gone.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“First the monsters come, then the indifference.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“But even the most boring people could harbor deep and ugly secrets.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“Gerald and Charlene Gallego, Ray and Faye Copeland, Fred and Rosemary West.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“Sometimes facing the thing you fear can render it powerless.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“There was no starting over for most people. That was a misconception. Unless a person’s memory could be erased, there were no fresh starts, only progression. Even if you burned down a house where bad things had happened, the house would still be there in your mind, regardless.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“Living in the city changed the biological clocks of birds. City birds got less sleep than rural birds.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“she could also have been one of the people who voluntarily vanish every year in California.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“she managed to ask while at the same time wanting to get up and run away, cover her ears, not hear his words.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“Like a magician, he produced something else, a small scrap of fabric.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“She could feel a dark cloud creeping over her brain, closing things off, protecting her.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“San Bernardino County was the largest county in the contiguous United States, which meant policing was a challenge and getting from point A to point B was time-consuming.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“Almost two hundred adults a month were reported missing in the county alone, over forty thousand a year for the entire state. Even after limiting it to adults only, it would take time to come up with a list of possible victims.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“body finder. It looked a little like a baby stroller. The device rolled across the ground and used ground-penetrating radar to find the bones.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“Mojave Desert was the biggest killing field in the United States.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“Joshua trees love books,” her grandmother said. “And they love to be read to.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“Joshua trees don’t grow anywhere else in the whole world, sweet little bird,” her grandmother had told her. She always added the sweet when she called her little bird. “That’s how special they are. You should never climb on one or pull their branches. You can sit in their shade, but don’t hurt them. They only grow a fraction of an inch a year, so they’re very old and very wise. And the only way more Joshua trees can grow is with the help of the yucca moth.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“Joshua trees looked like people,”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“you have to learn to feel in a different way. You have to change your focus from near to far, like opening a camera’s depth of field. You have to look at the sky and not at the ground. And once your brain finally makes the change, you’ll see it, really see it, and understand that the world is made up of all kinds of beauty, even in places that at first seem harsh. Places where the absence of trees and shade and things that are physically close allows the mind to expand, to see in a new and different way.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“Van Tassel lived underneath a seven-story rock and communicated with aliens there. Doesn’t ring a bell?” She fed him more information. “They told him to build something called the Integratron that was supposed to make a person young again. Does any of this sound familiar?” “They don’t teach outsider history in school.” “He spent twenty-four years creating this wooden dome that has no nails in it, but he died before he finished so he was never able to rejuvenate himself.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“mothers were the stronger carrier of the gene,”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“During the study, we researched serial killer genealogy going back to the 1800s. The other thing we now know—or think we know, because more research needs to be done—is that this behavior clusters in families.” “Inherited.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“The warrior gene, a prefrontal cortex that didn’t respond to stimuli . . .” He clicked keys and pulled up several colorful brain images. “No activity in the area that controls morality.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“He theorized three things were necessary for a subject to become a serial killer. One, an aggressive gene he called the warrior gene. Two, inactivity or damage or malfunctioning of the temporal and frontal lobes, which could be determined in a functional MRI. And three, early abuse that took place right after birth.”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“She’d moved away, to cities out east, but now she was back, and she wondered how she could have possibly forgotten her love of the place. On her good days, the scent of desert flowers and creosote bush was all the therapy she needed. On her bad, it was still a steadfast reminder that the landscape had been a comfort yesterday and would be again tomorrow. Sometimes she couldn’t help but feel she’d been a terrible friend, abandoning a place that had meant so much to her at one time. And yet the desert didn’t seem to care about her thoughtlessness. It remained the same, continuing to turn sunrises orange and sunsets red. It continued to sit quietly under fast-moving clouds and thunderstorms while allowing the wind to carry its sand away, lifting the grains high, taking them far”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me

“People wondered what it was about California that produced so many serial killers. It had the inauspicious distinction of having more serial kills than any other state, and also some of the most notorious killers. Maybe it was just a numbers thing—California was a big state and had the highest population. Or maybe earthquake tremors and fault lines had people subconsciously on edge. It was especially perplexing considering how much sunlight the state got; it was sold and embraced as the land of happy”
― Anne Frasier, Find Me