Hardwick was showing the frustration of a man trying to…

“Whatever it was that had drawn him to police work, that had wed him to the job for so many years, it surely wasn't…

— John Verdon

“The truth was that a complex murder case attracted his attention and curiosity like nothing else on earth. He could make up reasons for…

— John Verdon

“He knew how isolated he could become and hardly notice it was happening. How relationships could slip away like smoke in the breeze. How…

— John Verdon

“It was a curious thing about the past--how it lay in wait for you, quietly, invisibly, almost as though it weren't there. You might…

— John Verdon

“It's not the victim who wakes up to a half-empty bed, a half-empty house.He isn't the one who dreams that he's stiilla live, only…

— John Verdon

“The person I think I am is terrified of the person I really am, terrified of what others would think of that person. What…

— John Verdon

The purpose of life is to get as close as we can to other people.

— John Verdon

The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems…

— John Verdon

“...but grief, he'd discovered, was not an experience you went through once and then 'moved on' (as the idiotic popular phrase would have it).…

— John Verdon

“He was all too aware of how one's perceptions can start lining up to support a particular conclusion. Once a pattern begins to take…

— John Verdon

The worst pain in our lives comes from the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge--the things we've done that are so our of harmony with…

— John Verdon

“But how could he stop being what he was? However much he cared for her, however much he wanted to be with her, however…

— John Verdon

“This case is complex. It's got layers to it, Davey. It's a fucking onion... You're a natural-born onion peeler -- the best that ever…

— John Verdon

“Sexual energy in general has tremendous power, the power to concentrate one's attention like nothing else, to become the sole reality, to warp judgement,…

— John Verdon

“The fact that no one was dead persuaded him that he was on the right track”

— John Verdon