The Girl from Silent Lake Quotes

“A set of three predictive factors of future violent antisocial behavior: bed-wetting, cruelty to animals, and fire-setting. Any two of these three factors are strong predictors of serial violence later in life.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“Because there’s one thing about the truth: it always comes out into the light, and when it does, some of the shadows it casts can throw some people into darkness forever.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“But the brain is a fragile thing, creating alternate realities when the real one is too painful to endure.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“the brain is a fragile thing, creating alternate realities when the real one is too painful to endure.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“Want”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“truth”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“She understood the unsub better than anyone new on the case would have the chance to before the time ran out. She felt she was close to figuring out his profile, and some of that profile seemed within her grasp, like a forgotten word that sits on the tip of one’s tongue, refusing to come into focus, but clearly there, used, known, familiar.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“How she’d cried at the root of one, looking up through the branches at Grandma Aiyana’s body and calling her name until Grandpa Old Bear had covered her mouth with his warm, withered hand and taught her to never call the dead, to let the spirit be on its way, undisturbed by the grief of the living.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“liquid with a satisfied”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“screen”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“Men like him never stopped killing.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“The victim is Kendra Marshall, twenty-eight years old, a legal assistant from New York City. She was here on business. She was going to meet with the Christensen family on a matter regarding an inheritance. She never made her appointment.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“Her memories were hers only, deeply buried inside her mind. They couldn’t touch anything from her present or her future, not unless she invited them to.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“Constrói um icebergue: põe a verdade que podes usar acima da superfície, onde facilmente pode ser vista e confirmada, e tudo o resto abaixo da superfície da água, onde ninguém se lembrará de procurar. Com isso, podes afundar o navio de qualquer suspeito.”
― Leslie Wolfe, A Rapariga do Lago Silencioso

“morning”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“How”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake

“Please,” Alison said, “she’s just a little girl.” A lopsided smile tugged at the corner of the man’s mouth. “She is, isn’t she?” Then he added, sounding almost bitter. “They always are.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Girl from Silent Lake