1,246 Quotes About Murder





  • Author Allie Ray
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    People always talked about Rachel Eklund's beauty; Jerry had never really seen what all the fuss was about. He thought she was a nice-looking woman, but that was all--nice. There was something mundane in her symmetry; nothing especially interesting in features everyone seemed to approve of. He'd never thought much of her until that moment in her father's parlor, with him bled to death in the dining room.

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  • Author Peter Carey
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    The murders were so ghastly you might think it peculiar that Lucinda, no matter how lonely she might be, would leave her house at all, or, accepting the peculiarity, you may wrongly attribute great courage to her when you hear she had driven, unaccompanied, through streets that were still, for the most part, unlighted. Further, she was by no means insensible to this murderer. She was informed that he was, in all likelihood, a butcher or, the press suggested, an unsuccessful apprentice.

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