Dave Cullen Quotes

#1. The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.

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#2. Ten years on a massacre can be tough on the soul.

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#3. I don't want anyone else to understand it, because you only understand it when you have been welcomed into a club only the saddest people can enter. The cost of admission is the death of your loved one at the hands of someone else.

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#4. When I fell out the window, I knew somebody would catch me. That's what I need to tell you: that I knew the loving world was there all the time. -Patrick Ireland of the Columbine massacre

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#5. The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions.

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#6. You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.

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#7. No time. Less than a month to go. Eric had a lot of shit left to do. He organized it into a list labeled "shit left to do.

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#8. Eric dreamed big but settled for reality.

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#9. You know, it gets frustrating, because you know in your heart where you were and what you said, and then people doubt you. And that's what bothers me the most. -Valeen Schnurr of the Columbine massacre

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#10. What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?

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#11. Psychopaths don't act like Hannibal Lecter or Norman Bates. They come off like Hugh Grant, in his most adorable role.

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