In one of the most critically acclaimed novels of the year, Caleb Carr-- bestselling author of The Alienist--pits Dr. Laszlo Kreizler and his colleagues against a murderer as evil as the darkest night. . . .
“There's nothing truly natural or unnatural under the sun.”Dr. Laszlo Kreizler
“Still, it’s an interesting technique—leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone else.”Highlighted by 6 Kindle customers
we’ll find ourselves in some shadow world, where lawyers use the ignorance of the average citizen to manipulate justice the way priests did in the Middle Ages.Highlighted by 5 Kindle customers
She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren’t the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told….Highlighted by 5 Kindle customers
“It isn’t really possible for men to understand how much the world doesn’t want women to be complete people. The most important thing a woman can be, in our society—more important, even, than honest or decent—is identifiable.Highlighted by 5 Kindle customers
I’ve never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
if you don’t find what you’re looking for tonight, it’s all that much more important that you try again tomorrow.Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
But it never stopped him from working, from pressing ahead, and it’s that ability—to work through the self-doubts what any worthwhile human being feels—that is, so far as I can tell, the only thing what separates a meaningful life from a useless one.Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
There can’t be many people in the world what can blow wind like your average psychologists and alienists.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
Marybeth Tinning, Ann Rule for her incisive work on the Diane Downs case, Andrea Peyser for her reporting on and analysis of the Susan Smith murders, and my friend John Coston for his examination of Ellen Boehm.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
if the story of Libby Hatch teaches us anything at all, it’s that Nature’s domain includes every form of what society calls “unnatural” behavior; that in fact, just as Dr. Kreizler has always said, there’s nothing truly natural or unnatural under the sun.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
Preceded by The Alienist.
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