Chapter Thirty Three: Quote, Unquote

CORKBOARD

(OF THE MANY THOUGHTS)

Sovereign See of Dunster

When a man is denied the right

to live the life he believes in, he has

no choice but to become an outlaw.

Nelson Mandela

The man with a conscience suffers whilst

acknowledging his sins. That is his punishment.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

Crime and Punishment

There's no way to rule innocent men.

The only power any government has is the

power to crack down on criminals. Well, when

there aren't enough criminals, one makes them.

One declares so many things to be a crime

that it becomes impossible for men to live

without breaking the law.

Ayn Rand

I watched her undress with moonlight

shivering across the room from beyond sheer

curtains that moved with the currents

from the hearth fire.

Gabriel F.W. Koch, 

Death Leaves a Shadow

No amount of me trying to explain myself

was doing any good. I didn't even know what

was going on inside of me, so how could I

have explained it to them?

Sierra D. Waters, Debbie

Society wants to believe it can identify evil

people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not

practical. There are no stereotypes.

Ted Bundy

The source of every crime, is some defect

of the understanding; or some error in

reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.

Defect in the understading is ignorance;

in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

I had a funny feeling as I saw the house

disappear, as though I had written a poem

and it was very good and I had lost it

and would never remember it again.

Raymond Chandler, The High Window

The whole thing becomes like this

evil enchantment from a fairy tale,

but you've made to believe

the spell can never be broken.

Jess C. Scott, Heart's Blood

There were no clues left by the murderer

inside the judge's chambers. No fingerprints.

Nothing. The only thing found that was out

of the ordinary was a single strand of

long auburn hair on the window ledge.

A single strand of hair from an unknown

female. All dead ends. From my initial

perspective, the police were as thorough as

they could have been.

Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge

Rectory always sounded to me like

a place you would find a proctologist.

Jeff Lindsey, Dexter in the Dark

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