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Being made human without the possibility of BEING human; the cruelest of all punishments.
Dylan Klebold — 'Being made human without the possibility of BEING human; the cruelest of all punishments.'.
Being made human without the possibility of BEING human; the cruelest of all punishments.

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“The Columbine crisis was never a hostage standoff. Eric and Dylan had no intentions of making demands. SWAT teams searched the building for over three hours, but the killers were lying dead the entire time.”
Dave Cullen

This quote refers to the nature of the Columbine massacre and debunks the notion that Eric and Dylan's motive involved money. It also further proves that they had no care for the wellbeing of the students and were killing individuals at random.

“For Eric, Columbine was a performance. Homicidal art… He scripted Columbine as made-for-TV murder, and his chief concern was that we would be too stupid to see the point.”
Dave Cullen

As mentioned in the previous quote, Eric's true intention with the Columbine massacre was to create fear, and he achieved this through his carefully thought out and planned horrific attack. The killer also saw himself as a super-intelligent being, which Cullen evaluates throughout his book and

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“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart,” Rainer Maria Rilke writes in his fourth letter to a young poet. “Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
― Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

“As a mother, this was the most difficult prayer I had ever spoken in the silence of my thoughts, but in that instant I knew the greatest mercy I could pray for was not my son’s safety, but for his death.”
― Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

“I failed to understand as a parent until it was too late: that anyone can be

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Sue Klebold

American author and activist (born 1949)

Susan Francis Klebold (née Yassenoff; born March 25, 1949) is an American activist and author whose son, Dylan Bennet Klebold, was one of the perpetrators of the Columbine High School shooting in 1999. After the massacre, she wrote A Mother's Reckoning, a book about the signs and possible motives she missed of Dylan's mental state.^[3]

Early life

Klebold was born on March 25, 1949, in Columbus, Ohio, to Charlotte (née Haugh) and Milton Yassenoff and grew up in Bexley, Ohio, along with her older sister Diane and younger brother Philip.^[4] She was the granddaughter of philanthropist Leo Yassenoff.^[5] On her father's side, she was Jewish, and attended a Reform Jewish synagogue, while concurrently going to church with her maternal grandparents.^[6]

She started her post-secondary education at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and then transferred to Ohio State University in 1969,^[4] where she met Thomas Ernest Klebold, whom she would go on to marry two years