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Quotes About Murder

Fact: Somewhere around 2 a.m. on January 3, 1985, a person or persons killed three members of the Day family in their farmhouse in Kinnakee, Kansas. The deceased include Michelle Day, age ten; Debby Day, age nine; and the family matriarch, Patty Day, age thirty-two. Michelle Day was strangled; Debby Day died of axe wounds, Patty Day of two shotgun wounds, axe wounds, and deep cuts from a Bowie hunting knife.
~ Gillian Flynn
I wasn't entirely sure about Meredith's assessment. Some people would love to have the killer be a guy born and raised in Wind Gap. Someone they went fishing with once, someone they were in Cub Scouts with. Makes a better story.
~ Gillian Flynn
Strangling is the very definition of dominance. Slow-motion murder.
~ Gillian Flynn
Me desperté en el sofá de mi hermana con una resaca terrible y el deseo de asesinar a mi esposa.
~ Gillian Flynn
Ça a toujours été le cas. Les gens voulaient toujours savoir : quel genre de femme se fait assassiner par son propre fils ?
~ Gillian Flynn
This man might kill me.
~ Gillian Flynn
I mean, doesn't it seem like it could have been two people? Somehow? Michelle's murder was just—Your mom and Debby were like, uh, hunted down almost. But Michelle dies in her bed, covers pulled up. They have different feels to them. I think.
~ Gillian Flynn
People always were , they always wanted to know, what kind of women gets slaughtered by her own son?
~ Gillian Flynn
But I'm a romantic. In real life, if Nick had killed me, I think he would have just rolled my body into a trash bag and driven me to one of the landfills in the sixty-mile radius. Just dispose of me. He'd have even taken a few items with him – the broken toaster that's not worth fixing, a pile of old VHS tapes he's been meaning to toss – to make the trip efficient.
~ Gillian Flynn
Quite unwittingly I saved the lives of twenty enemies of the Stranglers scheduled to be tortured and murdered during the night. The priests freed them to tell the world that the Deceivers were real and had found their messiah, that those who did not come to Kina soon would be devoured in the Year of the Skulls. A fun bunch of guys, Croaker would say.
~ Glen Cook
Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe and what, in fact, they do believe, as demonstrated by their actions. A religion of brotherhood and mildness which daily murders those who disagree with its doctrines can only be thought hypocrite, or worse.
~ Gore Vidal
Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.
~ Graham Greene
The lieutenant said, 'Have you seen enough?' speaking savagely, almost as though I had been responsible for these deaths. Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.
~ Graham Greene
Driven to her hole the small animal peered out at the bright and breezy world; in the hole were murder, copulation, extreme poverty, fidelity and the love and fear of God, but the small animal had not the knowledge to deny that only in the glare and open world outside was something which people called experience.
~ Graham Greene
he regarded the massive destruction of space war, the necessary total vanquishing of an enemy, as an essentially immoral act. Yet he desired justice for the Earth's murder as much as any of the children
~ Greg Bear
I'd come home after eighteen hours of looking at murdered children and she'd be upset that the new drapes for the living room didn't quite match the carpet. I tried more than once to explain it to her, but when I told the unvarnished truth, she didn't want to know. Who would, if they didn't have to? She had to shut all that out, and I got shut out with it.
~ Greg Iles
named False Witness the fourth-best legal thriller ever written." "After what?" "Anatomy of a Murder , The Caine Mutiny , and Presumed Innocent.
~ Greg Iles
Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Annie
~ Greg Iles
And he'd kill Lily Ann Denton, put her in the trunkm and go to arbys. God. he was hungry.
~ Gregg Olsen
Their parents had killed multiple people. They'd done the most cruel and vile things anyone could do to another person. And so much of it had happened right before their eyes.
~ Gregg Olsen
Mimi killed her brother
~ Gregg Olsen
The Raymond Torture Killings
~ Gregg Olsen
after discussion about what evil is, a question asked to Elphaba on why she killed Madame Morrible] Why did you do it? asked the hostess with spirit. The Witch shrugged. For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
~ Gregory Maguire
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.
~ Ryszard Kapuscinski