Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.
I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold. - Erik Larson
I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.
- Erik Larson
Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes. - Erik Larson
Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.
Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere. - Erik Larson
Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.
His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries. - Erik Larson
His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. - Erik Larson
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.
I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me. - Erik Larson
I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.
Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world - Erik Larson
Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world
Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead. - Erik Larson
Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.
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 Chicag… - Erik Larson
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 Chicag…
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