#serial

She stared at me "You have a message," she said. "On you machine." I looked over at my answering machine. Sure enough, the light was blinking. The woman really was a detective. "It's some girl," La Guerta said. "She sounds kind of sleepy and happy. You got a girlfriend, Dexter?" there was a strange hint of a challenge in her voice. "You know how it is," I said. "Women today are so forward, and when you are as handsome as I am they absolutely fling themselves at your head." Perhaps an unfortunate choice of words; as I said it I couldn't help thinking of the woman's head flung at me not so long ago. "Watch out," La Guerta said. "Sooner or later one of them will stick." I had no idea what she thought that meant, but it was a very unsettling image. "I'm sure you're right," I said. "Until then, carpe diem." "What?" "It's Latin," I said. "It means, complain in the daylight. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#humor #serial-killer #dreams

What isn't remembered never happened. Memory is merely a record...you just need to rewrite that record. ↗

— Yoshitoshi Abe

#experience

How miserably hypocritical, you might say, but no sooner am I offered a chance to flee Hell than I yearn to stay. Few families hold their relations as closely as do prisons. Few marriages sustain the high level of passion that exists between criminals and those who seek to bring them to justice. It’s no wonder the Zodiac Killer flirted so relentlessly with the police. Or that Jack the Ripper courted and baited detectives with his - or her - coy letters. We all wish to be pursued. We all long to be desired. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#damned #desire #heaven #hell #serial-killers

For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#imagination #murder #serial-killer #writing #imagination

Madmen, criminals, and rapists! Isn’t it fantastic? All the romantic proposals I’ve ever got from anybody. Somebody up there has an extremely dark sense of humour. ↗

— Olga Núñez Miret

#police-procedural #psychiatry #rape #serial-killer #romantic

Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention. ↗

— Chelsea Cain

#serial-killers #suspense #journalist

I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that. ↗

— Tom Araya

#book #could #few #figure #had

I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates. ↗

— Lance Bass

#go #i #i see #like #multiple

There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you. ↗

— Pat Brown

#before #concerned #expect #far #killers

Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public. ↗

— Pat Brown

#dumb #help #killers #luck #number