All the Lies They Did Not Tell Quotes

“Finding the bad guy restores peace of mind,” Giuliana Mazzoni told me. She is a world-renowned professor of psychology who specializes in mass psychosis. “It restores the ability to live with oneself and not have to say, ‘It’s my fault.”
― Pablo Trincia, All the Lies They Did Not Tell

“The first Satanists known to history appeared in France, between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A courtesan at Louis XIV’s court, Catherine La Voisin, was caught organizing the first Black Masses, rituals in which she and other court dames worshipped the Devil in exchange for favors or material gain.”
― Pablo Trincia, All the Lies They Did Not Tell

“Similar events appear in annals and news reports from all over the world. They’re all born of a similar root: the idea, or the fear, that in every community there are individuals or groups of people leading double lives, lacking all sense of good, who are ready to commit atrocities in the name of absolute evil.”
― Pablo Trincia, All the Lies They Did Not Tell

“Town gossip. As rumors jump from mouth to mouth, any truth that is left risks falling off somewhere along the way, and a word that sounds like deprivation suddenly becomes depravation.”
― Pablo Trincia, All the Lies They Did Not Tell

“the simple repetition of the same question could destabilize a child, insinuating doubt in their mind and leading to a small mnemonic short circuit that activates the imagination, which attempts to compensate for the missing memory.”
― Pablo Trincia, All the Lies They Did Not Tell

“Non ho mai capito - e forse non capirò mai - il meccanismo mentale che ha portato così tanti professionisti coinvolti in questo caso a vedere ciò che di fatto era invisibile o addirittura inimmaginabile, e a scegliere invece di ignorare tutto quello che era lì, davanti agli occhi e nelle orecchie di tutti. Senza, all'apparenza, porsi domande, dando per scontato che questa storia avesse un'unica direzione, nonostante la montagna di indizi e segnali che indicavano l'opposto. Concentrandosi sulle parole uscite dalla bocca di bambini che, dopo essere passati dagli stessi professionisti, non solo davano versioni simili, ma avevano sviluppato fortissime paranoie e malesseri, nonostante fosse stato loro promesso che, parlando, si sarebbero liberati di un peso. Come è potuto accadere?”
― Pablo Trincia, All the Lies They Did Not Tell

“What all these experts seemed to overlook was that the children’s stories could have been contaminated in some way. Someone could have planted a seed in their memories. It then blossomed and grew over time until it devoured their real experiences, substituting them with something that was partially or completely artificial. This phenomenon has been studied for a long time in the rest of the world, but it remains underestimated, especially among psychologists who aren’t familiar with the research on the mnemonic functions of the brain.”
― Pablo Trincia, All the Lies They Did Not Tell

“Court experts had evaluated the children’s statements with a method called criteria-based content analysis, which is used to ascertain the reliability and truthfulness of abuse victim testimony. It uses a set of indicators, including logical structure, spontaneous correction, self-deprecation, and quantity of realistic details, like descriptions of physical sensations tied to the abuse.”
― Pablo Trincia, All the Lies They Did Not Tell

“The court decided not to rule on Don Giorgio due to “the death of the guilty.”
― Pablo Trincia, All the Lies They Did Not Tell

“Her tale wasn’t always linear. It was like the flight of a butterfly, winding and uneven. At times, she would pause her story and digress to a different scene that had just popped into her head. She opened parentheticals and didn’t close them. She often lost her train of thought. Then she’d give a nervous laugh and return to the point with a “well, donc, where were we?”
― Pablo Trincia, All the Lies They Did Not Tell