Quotes from M. William Phelps

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure - the eternal present, for it is always now.

The bottom line is that heat kills more people than any other natural disaster, and yet heat waves go unnamed.

As the years pass by, we'll glance at faded photographs recalling memories shared with special friends and family, never wanting it to end. Memories are the only thing left within the end." Judy

How did the apartment look?" Riggle wondered. "Nothing was out of place.

Ben Espey sat at his desk and looked over his notes.

Some would call this "volcanic rage"—a mind state that murderers need to enter in order to commit the crime—although they are well aware of what's going on around them. Another

My life and my mind, I realized, were screwed up enough without me adding to it with drugs.

A fictional character living in a nonfiction world.

Lots of women are doing time for love and fear.

could be stretching the truth

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." —Søren Kierkegaard

It is rare in life to be graced with a true best friend. Someone who is willing to do anything for you. Good or bad times. Drop his or her life to be there, without any personal expectations. Nothing can replace the warm touch, kind embrace, or simple gestures best friends lavish on each other.

signs of identity disturbance, being impulse ridden, unstable in love relations, and she can become intensely volatile and angry.

Well, evil to some is always good to others." —Jane Austen, Emma

By April 1990, Alan and Jessica had lived with his parents for nearly two months. They decided to move, however. The best place was Hoover, into Jessica's mother and stepfather's house. Sam was a month old. Living in Hoover would be more

UNSUCCESSFULLY TRYING TO manage a life that

insalubrious, if not downright

Dr. Kent Kiehl, neuroscientist and author of The Psychopath Whisperer, a man who's dedicated his life's work to clinical brain imaging in order to understand mental illness, especially criminal psychopathy, says, "The best current estimate is that just less than one percent of all noninstitutionalized males age eighteen and over are psychopaths.

Katie was displaying signs of antisocial personality disorder and extreme narcissism. Those who display a pattern of disregard for right and wrong, persistent lying, arrogance, impulsiveness, lack of empathy and remorse, along with other symptoms, fall within the antisocial/sociopath spectrum.

The bottom line is that heat kills more people than any other natural disaster, and yet heat waves go unnamed. They do not blow in with 100-mile-per-hour winds, a blistering, swirling shadowlike image on radar with a defined eye, or shake the ground in an intense display of drama. No. Heat is a silent killer. It slowly and stealthily moves into a region like a ghost, targeting the vulnerable and unsuspecting.

suggests, rather extraordinary with regard to accusation and speculation. Take, for example, this excerpt from page 9: (One source) states in a recorded telephone conversation that he

with himself for getting so drunk the

Behold, in example I grieve my heart out for that so sweet young girl; I give my blood for her.... I give my time, my skill, my sleep; I let my other sufferers want that so she may have all." —Bram Stoker, Dracula