Andrew Vachss
Andrew Vachss
Andrew Henry Vachssis an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 October 1942
CountryUnited States of America
parent sacred maintaining
A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
dark two fire
From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.
hero evil people
Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.
children enemy
Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
lace balls bowling
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
wall writing use
It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.
enemy spirit vulnerable
Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.
two missing remember
Two rules: You enter without breaking. And you remember that nobody misses what you don't take.
kids bmw people
I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
father son men
Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne
camouflage predator weakness
When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
children doe politician
No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
mean would-be cop
Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.
giving-up people ugly
People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.