Beneath Devil's Bridge Quotes

“And even if we do manage to protect them enough to keep them alive, we still can’t make them love us. The very act of protecting can drive them away. Even make them hate us.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“There was something you said, Trinity, back in the first episode of the podcast series. You posed the question, ‘If it takes a village to raise a child, does it also take a village to kill one?’ You were right. It does. We all killed Leena Rai. We all turned away, looked away, one too many times. And if you ask me who started the fire last night . . . we all did.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“I don’t know why He tells me these things. Maybe it’s a way of obliquely bringing out and addressing his own Shadow. But I do think our Shadows are bad—his and mine. Big and dark and very dangerous. I don’t think our Shadows should ever be allowed out. —From the diary of Leena Rai”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“This is what fuels the Shadow—our inability to look. Our inability to examine this thing that is in fact our raw selves. This is what gives the Shadow its power. It makes us lie. About what we want, about who we are. It fires our passions, our darkest desires. And the more powerful it gets, the greater we fear it, and the deeper we struggle to hide this Beast that is us . . .”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“Let us not forget, then, that we, as a community, are all responsible for watching our children.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets us free.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“We spend most of our lives afraid of our own Shadow. He told me that. He said a Shadow lives deep inside every one of us. So deep we don’t even know it’s there. Sometimes, with a quick sideways glance, we catch a glimpse of it. But it frightens us, and we quickly look away. This is what fuels the Shadow—our inability to look. Our inability to examine this thing that is in fact our raw selves. This is what gives the Shadow its power. It makes us lie. About what we want, about who we are. It fires our passions, our darkest desires. And the more powerful it gets, the greater we fear it, and the deeper we struggle to hide this Beast that is us . . . I don’t know why He tells me these things. Maybe it’s a way of obliquely bringing out and addressing his own Shadow. But I do think our Shadows are bad—his and mine. Big and dark and very dangerous. I don’t think our Shadows should ever be allowed out.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“We spend most of our lives afraid of our own Shadow. He told me that. He said a Shadow lives deep inside every one of us. So deep we don’t even know it’s there. Sometimes, with a quick sideways glance, we catch a glimpse of it. But it frightens us, and we quickly look away . . . I don’t know why He tells me these things. Maybe it’s a way of obliquely bringing out and addressing his own Shadow. But I do think our Shadows are bad—his and mine. Big and dark and very dangerous. I don’t think our Shadows should ever be allowed out.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“When you investigate a crime in real time, on air, you have this problem of reverb. The reporting you do today will influence the interviews and responses you get tomorrow, because your subject will have heard your episode, and will know your doubts, and suspicions, and theories, and thoughts. They will know what others have told you. And it will influence what they in turn tell you. That’s fine for fiction, but it’s a serious problem from a journalistic standpoint, the telling of a story influencing the story as it’s unfolding. It’s bait and switch. It’s unfair to the listener. You have your footprints and fingerprints all over the story in a very postmodern way. The risk with that—the reason news organizations don’t do it—is that you’ll find inconsistencies. You’ll find people lied to you. You’ll find you overlooked a piece of information, and you may have to reassess or revamp your story. I’m not saying it’s unethical per se, just that there are these potential pitfalls.—Mark Pattinson, journalism professor, on the ethics of true crime podcasting”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“No matter how much we pretend otherwise—mothers, daughters, grandmothers—there is always a part of us deep down inside that remains the little girl we once were.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“We . . . all just need to feel worthy, don’t we? To be loved. To belong. Because if we don’t feel that we belong somewhere, how can we ever call it home? Isn’t it a most basic survival thing, because to be cast out of a group, or a herd, can mean death?”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“his headlights painting the rain silver.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“drains”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“We are driven, all of us, to understand where we have come from. Who we are.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“TRINITY: Let us not forget, then, that we, as a community, are all responsible for watching our children. Let this podcast be our homage to Leena. A girl who shall not be forgotten.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“All Leena wanted was to go someplace where she felt valued. We . . . all just need to feel worthy, don’t we? To be loved. To belong. Because if we don’t feel that we belong somewhere, how can we ever call it home? Isn’t it a most basic survival thing, because to be cast out of a group, or a herd, can mean death?”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I’m not so sure about that.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“A person can think they’re fine. They can believe they’ve overcome or effectively compartmentalized negative events, but traumatic memory—it can become locked into the body.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“If anything, the ripples from this old crime must show us how to listen, to care, and to give everyone a chance and a helping hand. Because that’s community, after all, isn’t it?”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“We think we can keep them safe if we order them what to do, if we control them. We think that if we keep them busy with sports, they can’t get into trouble. But we’re wrong.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“When Clayton Jay Pelley pleaded guilty, he denied everyone their proper day in court. He denied you all the why.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“All we can do is acknowledge our past mistakes and use what we’ve learned in order to do our best going forward.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“They can believe they’ve overcome or effectively compartmentalized negative events, but traumatic memory—it can become locked into the body.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“This is it. No more secrets. No more walls. The now is all we’ve got. I want truth. The whole truth. I’m no longer afraid of looking too deep. I’m ready no matter what I find.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“what’s hard to stomach, what’s really, really difficult to absorb, is how good people, people you love—friends, parents, children, lovers—do truly terrible things. And how small lies become so big, little snowballs growing into deadly avalanches. And how turning a blind eye over time to seemingly small things can contribute to something so terribly heinous.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“question”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“Forgiveness is about freeing yourself from anger that can be crippling.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“I sense that life has dealt Dusty more challenges than most, and that she’s found a way to overcome and give back.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“sense that life has dealt Dusty more challenges than most, and that she’s found a way to overcome and give back.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge