1- Bill Tench : How do we get ahead of crazy if we don’t know how crazy thinks?
2- Holden Ford : It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
3- Bill Tench : If what we’re doing doesn’t get under your skin, you’re either more screwed up than I thought or you’re kidding yourself.
4- Bill Tench : The question is not only why did the killer do it, but why did the killer do it this way?
5- “Don’t make the mistake of confusing a psychopath with a psychotic.”
6- Holden Ford : The only mistake I made was ever doubting myself.
7- Wendy Carr : Psychopaths are convinced that there is nothing wrong with them, so these men are virtually impossible to study.
8- Bill Tench : Guys communicate in a certain way. It can be rough, but it’s like a code. It gets out the conflict.
9- Bill Tench : When you’re married, it’s a contract. There’s children, a mortgage, a house to keep up, almost like a business. Only you can’t quit. She can’t fire you. Stock goes up, stock goes down, doesn’t matter, you’re trapped. Unless you want to bring on the lawyers and open Pandora’s box. Resentment builds on both sides. A thousand tiny cuts.
10 – Leo Buchanan: Personality and character far outweigh the presence of psychotic or defective diagnoses. In other words, by extrapolation, are criminals born or are they formed?
11- “As with everything else in my life, I decided that if we were all going to get through this in one piece, I’d better have a sense of humor.”
12- Wendy Carr : What else is a criminal except somebody who can’t function in society?
13- Holden Ford : We should be using every resource we can. Talking to the smartest people we find from the broadest possible spectrum.
14- Bill Tench : I can choke down the bile, manufacture empathy—when our subjects are at least informative.
15- Holden Ford : What difference does any of this make if we can’t communicate it to the people who matter?
16- Bill Tench : If what we’re doing doesn’t get under your skin, you’re more screwed-up than I thought, or kidding yourself.
17- “Manipulation. Domination. Control. These are the three watchwords of violent serial offenders.”
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