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And maybe on some level his approach was manipulative, but what mattered most was the way it made her feel. Like he understood her, without ever having to be heavy-handed about it.
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Treat me well, and I'll treat you better. Treat me badly, and I'll treat you worse.
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Kyou nite mo kyou natsukashiya... Though in Kyoto, I long for Kyoto...
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She'd always assumed that what she kept buried down deep was imperceptible to the people around her. But she hadn't ever pressure checked the notion the way it might be pressure checked now.
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There aren't many things we humans need to do. We need to eat, we need to drink, we need to make love. And the French attitude is, okay, we should do those things very well.
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Strangeland's confidence in her, the risks she was willing to run . . . it was all producing a roiling mess of emotion she couldn't deal with right now. She managed to push it away and handed
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But we rarely see what we prefer to overlook.
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A Fed, a local, and a consultant.
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Graham smiled and filled it all the way, then said, "What the hell" and did the same for his own. He took a sip and made an mmmmm sound. "That's a Peruvian varietal, from Ritual Coffee Roasters in San Francisco. I can't get enough of their coffee. I have twenty pounds flown in every month, and it's barely enough for my habit. Say, you're from California, aren't you?"
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But then, as seemed always to be the case when she found herself hit by a wave of happiness, or joy, or delight, there was an immediate undertow of sadness.
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I read it somewhere once." She laughed. "You did not." "I did. Okay, I wrote it down first. Then I read it. But still." --
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His gal had thrown down, and he was going to follow her wherever that led.
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Context had reinforced familiarity, and familiarity had blinded them to new possibilities.
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George Burns line? 'Sincerity--if you can fake that, you've got it made.
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Domaine Leroy Musigny Grand Cru
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So much of being a good interrogator was just knowing how to actively listen to someone,
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Arrington smoked
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Because we're friends, dumbass. Friends stay in touch. I won't lie to you, you're so good at reading people, but sometimes you assume everyone else is just like you, and that ain't the way the world works. Most people don't prefer to go months without talking to another human. That's unusual. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it; in fact, there's not. I'm just saying you shouldn't be surprised to learn that the people in your life ..
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Glock with an exceptionally long magazine.
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Thirty-round mag,
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I felt like Schrodinger's cat. She would come, or not come. She would take me in, or throw me out. She would forgive me, or tell me to fuck off. And in that narrow, purgatorial space, a feeling crept in, a kind of mourning for my younger self and all his terrible choices, and a wish that I could somehow tell him what I knew now and help him for both our sakes to get it right, and a grief that such a thing was impossible, the young man's bli..
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If there was one thing Snake knew about people, it was that once they got attached to a theory, it was hard to get them detached. They'd screen out unhelpful facts, invent favorable ones, and ignore contradictions in their own claims. Look at those Sandy Hook truthers, babbling about false flags and crisis actors and all the rest. When people were motivated enough to believe something, they were going to believe it no matter what.
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Pardon me, but the drop-down menu of my mind just offered up so many enticing possibilities that for a moment my brain froze.
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Sometimes you need the anesthesia. Because what you learn about yourself when fear finally overtakes you isn't pretty. You understand that the person you thought of as yourself, your immutable, indivisible self, is just an overlay, fragile and frail. Fear strips away the facade. And having to see what lies beneath, and accept it, makes you different from everyone who hasn't been similarly forged. You've been aged; they remain neophytes. You..
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One possibility, sure." "What are the others? He's retired, isn't he?" Larison"
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client?" "I asked the same question. Hort wouldn't tell me. For your ears only. But if you want to share, I'm a good listener." I said"
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Treat
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