It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.
("The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America")
More Quotes from Erik Larson:
The club also had the custom of sending robed members to kidnap visiting celebrities and steal them away in a black coach with covered windows, all without saying a word.Erik Larson
Now the city's most treasured landmarks are those that existed before the storm. The city has gone from one that looked forward to one that sees its happiest times in the past.
Erik Larson
My job is to ... sort of guide them through the negative and positive energies in their life and erase the barriers and increase the strength so they can accomplish their goals.
Erik Larson
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.
Erik Larson
Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades alienists and their successors would find themselves hard-pressed to describe with any precision what it was about men like Holmes that could cause them to seem warm and ingratiating but also telegraph the vague sense that some important element of humanness was missing.
Erik Larson
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: History Quotes, Wisdom & Knowledge QuotesGreater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.
Julie Bishop
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I've got 911 on speed dial.
Doug Coupland