“ I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down t… Caleb Carr
“ You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't. Caleb Carr
“ I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to und… Caleb Carr
“ Yet the profound irony was that our killer believed he was providing himself with just those things: vengeance for the child he had been, protection for the tortured soul he had become. Caleb Carr
“ The degenerative processes in children have their chief encouragement in the equally defective home surroundings. Caleb Carr
“ Every human being must find his own way to cope with such severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses. Caleb Carr
“ All of which would have been merely comical, had it not also reflected a very serious reality: most such officials, in their zeal to treat every criminal event as a chance to display supreme control o… Caleb Carr
“ I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason. Caleb Carr
“ Revenge is a kind of wild justice; and the more man turns to it, the more the law ought to weed it out.’ Nodding Caleb Carr
“ Marks Marcus had originally thought to be left by pitons at that site were therefore made by something else, probably something altogether unconnected to our case). Caleb Carr
“ Intersection of Broadway and Houston Street. Here, it was once sagely remarked, you could fire a shotgun in any direction without hitting an honest man; Caleb Carr
“ But my cognitive brain fought back hard, telling me that I knew these scenarios were unlikely, that whatever rationalizations she might have for the staging of the four deaths we knew of, to say nothi… Caleb Carr
“ We are not obligated to provide everyone who comes to this country with a good life, Morgan went on. We are obligated to provide them with a chance to attain that life, through discipline and hard wor… Caleb Carr
“ They’ll want him to be mad, of course,’ Laszlo mused, not hearing me. ‘The doctors here, the newspapers, the judges; they’d like to think that only a madman would shoot a five-year-old girl in the hea… Caleb Carr
“ P198 Describe John Moore’s brother’s death: but at heart I believe now, as I believed then, that it was essentially the result of growing up in a household, and a world, where emotional expression of… Caleb Carr
