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“Our society needs criminals like Wolfgang Priklopil in order to give a face to the evil that lives within and to split it off from ... It needs the images of cellar dungeons so as not to have to see the many homes in which violence rears its conformist, bourgeois head. Society uses the victims of sensational cases such as mine in order to divest itself of the responsibility for the many nameless victims of daily crimes, victims nobody helps â€� even when they ask for help.”
― Natascha Kampusch, 3,096 Days

“Julian was always trying to convince her that E.T. had already visited Earth multiple times. One night in Dolores Park, while they were hanging out on the swings in the playground, Julian told her about meeting an alien abductee in Golden Gate Park the weekend before.
"He had an implant in his lower back - he totally showed me the scar and everything," Julian said [...].
"Yeah, I'm sure that's what he was showing you."[...]
"You're just jealous you didn't get to see his ass.”
― Malinda Lo, Adaptation

“It’s odd to suddenly discover you’re happy right in the middle of a moment. Usually, you don’t recognize happiness until it’s over and you’re looking back on it.”
― Wodke Hawkinson, Betrayed: Alternate Ending

“At this point, I realize: He is making a monster of me.”
― Zoe Cruz, Beastia

“I know I'm not to blame for what he did. And I know, too, that I am strong inside--stronger than I ever realized.”
― Cheryl Rainfield, Stained

“If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.”
― Cheryl Rainfield, Stained

“Humanity could be clutching the frail barque of an outmoded world view while the wind of the mind is swaying the stars into very real craft, and out of them is comingâ€� a faint call for help from a lady in a flowered dress.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story

“Sore, hungry, and dehydrated, Naomi Robertson lay on a festering bed and opened her eyes to the unfamiliar surroundings. Her head throbbed and she struggled to focus, due to the intake of Rohypnol. She ran her dry tongue between the gap where her front teeth had once been. Slowly, she made out the interior of the huge-dilapidated brick building”
― Anthony Hulse, Pursuit of Angels.

“As they drove on the quiet A3320 towards Notting Hill, Doris spoke. “He won’t, you know. He won’t pay the ransom.â€�
Wolfe offered her a reassuring smile, but inside his stomach housed a million butterflies. Shamefully, he passed wind again, the words of his captive disconcerting him on his journey to Shepherd’s Bush.”
― Anthony Hulse, Portrait of Guilt

“I could stay in every night for the rest of my life and my mother still wouldn't be happy. In fact, maybe she'd be better off if I finally did go out and meet a grand demise. Get the waiting game over with. Because, as my mother will tell you, there are worse things than having your daughter abducted. There's getting her back and realizing you've lost her after all.”
― Lisa Gardner, Find Her

“I should know better than anyone--you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.”
― Cheryl Rainfield, Stained

“The word 'fairy' conjures up images of cute little creatures, so I don't use it. I use 'metahominids' from the Greek for 'other' and 'men.' They aren't cute - this is no fairy story.”
― F.R. Maher

“It had started to drizzle. The lamp poles cast a kaleidoscope of light dancing across the puddles in the road. The rain made Sam feel even more lost now, as if these shadowy events were invisible to the world. As if the night was cloaked in anonymity. This wasn’t a peaceful rain - it was a sad one. A drizzle, which wept for the inevitable. Sam knew even if she got Alison out of this alive, the cuts on their lives had already been made, pooling the blood of consequence beneath their feet as the night dragged on. Whichever way this went, they’d have scars from this night. Scars and scabs and things which could not be spoken. And that made her feel utterly hopeless.”
― Adelheid Manefeldt, Consequence

“Never talk to strangers. If someone ever tries to take you, fight with everything you have. Scream as loud as you can. (He'd never told her what to do if the man was too strong and there was no one to hear her screaming.)”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone

“You don’t look injured to me. What am I supposed to think? Have you been with them this whole time? My god, Brook. Where were you?”
― Wodke Hawkinson, Betrayed: Alternate Ending

“Should I talk to her friends?â€� he asked softly, because he had to say something to take his mind away from the feel of her body against his and the rising desire to kiss her.
‘No, don’t,� she turned her head and her mouth was suddenly tantalisingly close, lips moist and inviting.
‘Jax,� he murmured. He smoothed hair from her brow. Her eyes met his, wide and surprised. She straightened, moved and his hand slipped from her shoulders.
Mistake. Don’t make it again. She didn’t want more than comfort from him. Friends was as far they would go.”
― Elisabeth Rose, Find Her