“One of the reasons that some of these investigators and attorneys spoke in our documentary, even though they may have told their story in the past, is to continue to get the message out that these people are out there, and that evil, unfortunately, does exist in this capacity. And the more we can le…”— Alexa Danner, rollingstone.com
“John Gacy, within his own time and within his own society, seemed very normal, and by all appearances operated as a guy next door, as a successful businessman and family man and politically involved person.”— Alexa Danner, rollingstone.com
“Their minds work logically; they understand cause and effect; they don't hallucinate. Their perceptions of most life circumstances are reasonably accurate. They get good reports at work; they do well in school or training programs; and no one other than their partners -- and children -- thinks that…”— Lundy Bancroft, amazon.com
“While I was homeless there were people who were obviously trying to prey on me. But at the same time there were people who were nice for no reason.”— Jewel, amazon.com
“My brain is doing what my brain is supposed to do and looking for predators. It doesn’t want me to brush all these threats off, it wants me to survive and in what kind of quality is an afterthought.”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“Fighting for the people meant fighting on behalf of survivors of sexual assault—a fight not just against predators but a fight against silence and stigma.”— Kamala Harris, cnn.com
“I knew our criminal justice system was deeply flawed. I knew that the people in our society who are most often targeted by predators are also most often the voiceless and vulnerable. And I believed then as I do now, that no one should be left to fight alone.”— Kamala Harris, cnn.com
“Consider who we're dealing with here. Give a wolf a taste of your leg and he'll ask for your hand.”— Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa, Manzô - Father of Shino, Kamatari Fujiwara, imdb.com
“At the moment … the clearer signal to men and to younger people is, deny it. Because if you take responsibility for what you did, your life’s going to get ruined.”— Matt Damon, abcnews.go.com
“Psychopaths are nature’s only known intraspecies predators. Other creatures will kill their own under certain conditions. However, none wantonly prey on their own. Psychopaths represent the exception. And it’s their malignant narcissism that permits such conduct.”— Dr. George Simon, drgeorgesimon.com
“When I was young, I felt like Woody Allen. I intuited or believed he represented me on-screen. He was me. This is one of the peculiar aspects of his genius—this ability to stand in for the audience.”— Claire Dederer, theparisreview.org
“I miss the nights when my parents And dreamcatchers were enough to keep me safe Instead of speed walks and keychains loaded down With pepper spray.”— Holly Riordan, amazon.com
“When I took the trash out at night, I sometimes felt his eyes, tried to pretend he wasn’t the thing he claimed to be protecting me from.”— Raven Leilani , narrativemagazine.com