# Diary of a Predator ![[Assets/c3b2aed14499c7f15a79e7f3c406151f_MD5.jpg]] ## 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))