Ann Rule Quotes

#1. . . .three percent of all males are deemed to be antisocial and without conscience, while only one percent of females seem to lack compassion for others. But the icy manipulations of that one percent are utterly fascinating. No one can be crueler than a woman without a conscience.

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#2. I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

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#3. I always want to give the victim a voice.

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#4. Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

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#5. She reminded Kevin again that she had forced herself to turn and walk away from him when everything in her wanted to stay.

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#6. would be terrified that she would be found out. She could be so frightened, perhaps, that she might blurt out a confession. No one was leaning on her. To a burdened conscience, silence and solicitude can be more threatening than interrogation.

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#7. The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

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#8. Choices are like dominoes, one tumbling against the next and then the next until events go out of human control.

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#9. Some people hate the smell of hospitals. I hate the smell of jails and prisons, all the same: stale cigarette smoke, Pine-Sol, urine, sweat, and dust.

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#10. For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.

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#11. He was a shadow man, fighting to survive in a world that was never made for him.

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#12. All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

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#13. Just be careful," a Seattle homicide detective warned. "Maybe we'd better know where to find your dental records in case we need to identify you."
I laughed, but the words were jarring; the black humor that would surround Ted Bundy evermore begun.

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#14. Don't confuse me with the facts - I've already made up my mind.

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#15. Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

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#16. You cannot step over a mountain," she told me, "but if you step over pebble by pebble, you'll look back and the mountain will be behind you.

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#17. Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

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#18. Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

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#19. There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.

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#20. Yet, in reality, Ted loved things more than he loved people. He could find life in an abandoned bicycle or an old car, and feel a kind of compassion for these inanimate objects, more compassion than he could ever feel for another human being.

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#21. I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

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#22. Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness.

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#23. I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come.

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#24. Reynolds was thirty-three and healthy and beautiful when she died on December 16, 1998.

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