Those Empty Eyes Quotes

“A missing girl was more interesting than a dead girl. And a dead girl was interesting only as long as her killer was on the loose. It was the sad reality of American society. Gory crimes captured the public’s interest, especially if they involved young, attractive women. But that curiosity lasted only as long as there was mystery surrounding the gore and the girl. Once the pieces were laid out and the puzzle was assembled, the public’s thirst was quenched.”
― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes

“her therapist continued to point out that correcting her trajectory through life was more important than arriving at some imagined utopia in the end.”
― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes

“Sometimes, she learned, talents were discovered without cultivating them, and goals reached without pursuing them—or even knowing they existed.”
― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes

“An object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.”
― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes

“Sin was a mystery. Some believed their sins went unnoticed and could be committed without consequence. Others repented in the conviction that an omnipotent God witnessed all discretions and forgave unconditionally.”
― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes

“But the problem with detective work is that what you think and what you can prove are different things.”
― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes

“sitting on the sidelines, frozen with inaction, brought nothing good to her life.”
― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes

“But I should’ve known better. There’s no problem Americans can’t shoot their way out of.”
― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes

“The girl smiled. “The Old Ticket Office at eight. It’ll just be me and a couple girlfriends. I could swing by and we could go together. That way you’re not walking into the pub with your ass in hat.”
― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes

“because we all know that in the news media, if it bleeds, it leads.”
― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes

“went”
― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes

“half written—Tracy could not shake the encounter she’d had on Friday. In the middle of her report, a woman had stumbled into the”
― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes

“The pictures were of three women who had worked for Roland Glazer, the business tycoon who had been arrested on child sex trafficking charges and who had hung himself in his jail cell the night before his trial was to start. The knowledge that whoever killed Byron”
― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes

“Megan Twohey,”
― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes

“correcting her trajectory through life was more important than arriving at some imagined utopia in the end.”
― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes