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Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar
4.5

- The author J. R. R. Tolkien had a word for that feeling—eucatastrophe. The opposite of catastrophe, and all the more important because it’s even rarer.

- Maybe that’s what grieving is all about: never forgetting what we’ve lost.

- Innocence once lost, can never be regained. Darkness, once gazed upon, can never be lost.

- If I was shadows and moonbeams and tales of death and horror, she was sunshine and laughter and the yellow brick road from The Wizard of Oz . We balanced each other.

- When a monster is finally caught against all odds, it feels like magic.

- According to a 2009 study conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, nearly 16 percent of American serial killers were adopted as children, while adoptees represent only 2 percent of the general population.

- This is what you do when you have a family. You get up when it's still dark outside and you go to work so the people you love can have a better life. Even when you're sick or tired and don't want to.