# Diary of a Predator

## Metadata
- Author: [[Amy Herdy]]
- Full Title: Diary of a Predator
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- There’s no such thing as objectivity in journalism. ([Location 55](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004JHYSQW&location=55))
- And if we focus on what we fear, that’s what we’ll get. ([Location 427](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004JHYSQW&location=427))
- Psychologists say we are prone to choose partners who have the same traits we couldn’t stand in our parents ([Location 1814](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004JHYSQW&location=1814))
- before him on prostitution charges nearly every day: “They’re victims and they’re defendants and they’re perpetrators and they’re drug addicts and they’re sociopaths—all rolled into one.” ([Location 1880](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004JHYSQW&location=1880))
- He was angry at her for abandoning him, yet not for the sexual abuse? So abandonment is worse than abuse, at least to Brents? I wondered if that was how other people felt. ([Location 2686](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004JHYSQW&location=2686))