22 Quotes by Michelle McNamara
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I am both nowhere and everywhere. You may not think you have something in common with your neighbor, but you do: me. I’m the barely spotted presence, the dark-haired, blond-haired, stocky, slight, seen from the back, glimpsed in half-light thread that will continue to connect you even as you fail to look out for each other.
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A middle-aged white man smiling and cutting a cake decorated with candles in a picture posted on Facebook isn't celebrating his birthday, but holding a knife.
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A forensic match between the cases didn’t exist but a feeling did, a sense that a single mind was at work, someone who didn’t leave many clues or talk or show his face, someone who strolled undetected in the middle-class swarm, an ordinary man with a resting-pulse derangement.
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I don’t care if I’m the one who captures him. I just want bracelets on his wrists and a cell door slamming behind him.
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Every obsession needs a room of its own.
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I need to see his face. He loses his power when we know his face.
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Police reports read like stories told by robots. They’re terse and demarcated, with little space for judgment or emotion.
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When my family goes to sleep, I time travel and reframe stale evidence using twenty-first-century technology
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He was a compulsive prowler and searcher. We, who hunt him, suffer from the same affliction. He peered through windows. I tap "return," Return. Click Mouse click, mouse click.
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