“You know I’ve always wanted a child. And now I think I’ll have one…on toast!”— Mick Garris, Neil Cuthbert, David Kirschner, Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Bette Midler, imdb.com
“Great, we’ve gone from infanticide to child abduction. Progress.”— Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer, Ray Palmer / The Atom, Brandon Routh, imdb.com
“It was the seventh deadly sin. My children weren't righteous. They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them they could never be saved....Better for someone else to tie a millstone around their neck and cast them in a river than stumble. They were going to perish. I was so stupid! Coul…”— Andrea Yates, web.archive.org
“I was afraid if I discussed it that it would happen. If it was—we had spoke [sic] to this treatment and started—he said that Satan can’t read your thoughts. But if you say them aloud, he will hear them and he’ll use them against you. Now, I thought I verbalized these fears that that they would come…”— Andrea Yates, transcripts.cnn.com
“I put him in the water until he stopped breathing. I don’t know how many minutes it was or anything.”— Andrea Yates, transcripts.cnn.com
“Well, I thought I, they had given me some medicine, and I lay down for a nap, and I was kind of in between staying asleep and awake, and I thought I heard some voices come from the wall, and uh, I thought the voices said in a growl, in a gravelly voice, I thought he said, ‘Andrea, come here,’ and I…”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“I had these visions of harming Noah, and so I said, [inaudible] closing in. And I called Rusty at work and told him I needed him to come home. When he came home, I said I needed help, and I meant medical help. He thought I meant help with the children.”— Andrea Yates, transcripts.cnn.com
“When he came up out of the water and said something, but I didn’t know what it was. It was like ‘I’m sor—,’ and I didn’t hear the rest. I don’t know if he was saying, ‘I’m sorry,’ or what.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“Well, they came, and I opened the door, and I told them I killed my children, and I led them down the hall to where they were.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“The drownings. They, um, I drew up the water, and Rusty had already left for work that day, and I went in the bathroom, and I set Mary on the floor. And while I was filling the tub, Paul came in, and he sat on the tub and he said, he said “Mommy are we gonna take a bath today?” And then he asked aga…”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“Well, doing it would take them to heaven, and not doing it there’d be a risk of Satan messing them up.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“I...I thought about what I was about to do and how it fit in there, the deadly sins. And how I would have done all of them after I drown my children.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“Well I thought it was murder, and I felt I had done all the other sins, and now this one would be the last one, the last one of the sins.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“Well, I didn’t want them ruined, and I was afraid being around him, they would continue to go downhill. And I thought I should save them before that happened.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“I didn’t think I was getting better. One time I drew water in the tub, and Rusty worried about that, why I did it, and he took me back in the hospital.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com