“No suspects. No persons of interest. Just a girl who was alive one day and dead the next.”
―
Charlie Donlea,
Summit Lake
“A life might end, but sometimes their case lives forever.” ― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
“My parents wanted their daughter back, and I haven't had the courage to tell them she's long gone. Haven't found a way to break it to them that that girl doesn't exist anymore.” ― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
“You go through life doing all the things everyone else wants you to do, and you'll wake up one day realizing your life's passed you by and you've got a list of stuff you've never gotten to do.” ― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
“I factored in the unexpected, a necessity to any proper strategy.” ― Charlie Donlea, Don't Believe It
“If she were a broken girl whose life was a wreck and would never be the same, their vigor for her story would simply be unacceptable. They couldn't allow themselves to be so attracted to her narrative if it ended any way but beautifully.” ― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
“A missing girl was more interesting than a dead girl. And a dead girl was interesting only as long as her killer was on the loose. It was the sad reality of American society. Gory crimes captured the public’s interest, especially if they involved young, attractive women. But that curiosity lasted only as long as there was mystery surrounding the gore and the girl. Once the pieces were laid out and the puzzle was assembled, the public’s thirst was quenched.” ― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes
“The future was something taken for granted. It was always there, waiting to be lived.” ― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
“Can anyone name a president who really had the citizens in mind during the majority of his decisions in office? None of them did, and the current ones don’t either. It’s all about power, keeping power, and dishing out power to those who throw the most money at them.” ― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake
“Because if there was one thing that spurred the public’s interest even more than watching the birth of a young starlet rising to fame, it was watching them fall from grace. Schadenfreude had become the new American pastime.” ― Charlie Donlea, Twenty Years Later
“What was it about being so close to danger that filled us with adrenaline?” ― Charlie Donlea, The Suicide House
“The country was transfixed, not by the girl who was gone, but by the one who made it home.” ― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
“Yeah, the club was dark but so's the whole country. When someone important goes missing, or the case is interesting enough, everybody has the same fetish. Whole world, really. No one admits it, but it's true.” ― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
“Some choose darkness, others are chosen by it.” ― Charlie Donlea, Some Choose Darkness
“A cottony framework of snow-white clouds ripped and pulled their way across the sky, stretching over the lake and toward the horizon like a ceiling to the world. In the distance an opening formed, as though solvent spilled from heaven had burned a hole in the clouds, and through it shined vibrant yellow rays of morning sunlight that landed on the waterfall and ricocheted off the granite.” ― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake
“decay, causing his upper lip to twitch when it reached” ― Charlie Donlea, Twenty Years Later
“fingerprints,” ― Charlie Donlea, Twenty Years Later
“Do they think I’m naive, or just really bad at math? Or” ― Charlie Donlea, Twenty Years Later
“checked” ― Charlie Donlea, Twenty Years Later
“A life might end, but sometimes their case lives forever.” ― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
“My parents wanted their daughter back, and I haven't had the courage to tell them she's long gone. Haven't found a way to break it to them that that girl doesn't exist anymore.” ― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
“You go through life doing all the things everyone else wants you to do, and you'll wake up one day realizing your life's passed you by and you've got a list of stuff you've never gotten to do.” ― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
“I factored in the unexpected, a necessity to any proper strategy.” ― Charlie Donlea, Don't Believe It
“If she were a broken girl whose life was a wreck and would never be the same, their vigor for her story would simply be unacceptable. They couldn't allow themselves to be so attracted to her narrative if it ended any way but beautifully.” ― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
“A missing girl was more interesting than a dead girl. And a dead girl was interesting only as long as her killer was on the loose. It was the sad reality of American society. Gory crimes captured the public’s interest, especially if they involved young, attractive women. But that curiosity lasted only as long as there was mystery surrounding the gore and the girl. Once the pieces were laid out and the puzzle was assembled, the public’s thirst was quenched.” ― Charlie Donlea, Those Empty Eyes
“The future was something taken for granted. It was always there, waiting to be lived.” ― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
“Can anyone name a president who really had the citizens in mind during the majority of his decisions in office? None of them did, and the current ones don’t either. It’s all about power, keeping power, and dishing out power to those who throw the most money at them.” ― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake
“Because if there was one thing that spurred the public’s interest even more than watching the birth of a young starlet rising to fame, it was watching them fall from grace. Schadenfreude had become the new American pastime.” ― Charlie Donlea, Twenty Years Later
“What was it about being so close to danger that filled us with adrenaline?” ― Charlie Donlea, The Suicide House
“The country was transfixed, not by the girl who was gone, but by the one who made it home.” ― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
“Yeah, the club was dark but so's the whole country. When someone important goes missing, or the case is interesting enough, everybody has the same fetish. Whole world, really. No one admits it, but it's true.” ― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
“Some choose darkness, others are chosen by it.” ― Charlie Donlea, Some Choose Darkness
“A cottony framework of snow-white clouds ripped and pulled their way across the sky, stretching over the lake and toward the horizon like a ceiling to the world. In the distance an opening formed, as though solvent spilled from heaven had burned a hole in the clouds, and through it shined vibrant yellow rays of morning sunlight that landed on the waterfall and ricocheted off the granite.” ― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake
“decay, causing his upper lip to twitch when it reached” ― Charlie Donlea, Twenty Years Later
“fingerprints,” ― Charlie Donlea, Twenty Years Later
“Do they think I’m naive, or just really bad at math? Or” ― Charlie Donlea, Twenty Years Later
“checked” ― Charlie Donlea, Twenty Years Later
