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6e5c237	To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness; let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death.' Michel de Montaigne, Essais (1580)		Val McDermid
e3b2609	As with arsenical candles and papers and fabrics, items become established in commerce before their dangers are recognized, ensuring that any attempt to curtail their use will be resisted by manufacturers ... and fought or ignored by politicians ideologically opposed to government interference ...' Gettler's		Val McDermid
a468dcf	They think of policemen as they do of Labradors - noble, loyal, good with children, man's protector and friend. In		Val McDermid
98d3575	Without work, without direction, his thoughts were like a hamster on a wheel, circling and dancing with no destination and no possibility of arrival. With		Val McDermid
e53b7c7	junction at the top of the stairs. She gave a curious glance down General Tilney's corridor, but she		Val McDermid
08fd4a6	The bodies of two murdered women have been found this week. For the record, I didn't kill either of them.		Val McDermid
48490a8	He spread his hands in a self-deprecating gesture. 'Well, I'm not a cop. And I'm not a woman.' She couldn't resist. 'I had noticed.	tony-hill	Val McDermid
049e3aa	Why are you only coming home just after three? Do you want a drink? I'm wide awake now.' He could be so like a small child, she thought. Out of nowhere, all eagerness and curiosity.	tony-hill	Val McDermid
0a92126	Admittedly, they [(places in novels)] didn't all have such ridiculous names as the ones in the Piddle Valley where her father's group of parishes was centered. It would have been hard to make credible a romantic fiction set in Farleigh Piddle, Middle Piddle, Nether Piddle and Piddle Dummer.		Val McDermid
331a6ab	It wasn't enough but it was a start. It might keep him going...	positive-affirmation hope-quote keeping-going make-a-change make-a-start not-enough positive-self-talk keep-going hopeful	Val McDermid
077f489	It had seemed a good idea at the time to order the furniture for her new home online from a chain retailer.		Val McDermid
dd75863	Her anger was a memory now. She didn't believe in bearing grudges. She believed in killing them where they lay.		Val McDermid
5e30c16	It's your fault because you got me into Morag Fraser. I'd never even heard of the Hebridean Harpies series till you dragged me along to her event. And now I am totally hooked. I was reading Vampires on Vatersay till one in the morning. I just had to finish it. And then I started Banshees of Berneray at breakfast and I could hardly drag myself away from it to come and meet you.	jane-austen val-mcdermid northanger-abbey	Val McDermid
7b66d37	The psychology of sanction.' 'If you're right, then why does anyone protest against torture? Why don't we all just go, "Oh well, we've seen how well it works in the movies, let's just go along with it"?' Carol leaned on her fists on the edge of his bed as she spoke, her tumbled blonde hair falling into her eyes. 'Carol, you might not have noticed, but there's a significant number of people out there who do say just that. Look at the opposit..		Val McDermid
4b08876	wyvern.		Val McDermid
baff6d6	Tell you what, just to prove I'm not, I'll let you top tonight. You'll be in charge. I'll be the one with handcuffs on.' Carry on like this and you won't be wrong, Merrick thought to himself.		Val McDermid
1e6b36f	I'm telling you the truth, Carol. Even though it's actually none of your business.' She half turned, found a smile from somewhere and said, 'You're quite right. It is none of my business. Till tomorrow Tony.	tony-hill	Val McDermid
466f1a5	Discovering dedicated mystery booksellers was a bit like going to heaven without having to die first		Val McDermid
2a53821	cliches got that way because they reflected reality. Better the devil you know. Don't take sweets from strangers.		Val McDermid
5258391	ziggurat		Val McDermid
4d32c57	kill. He's a man obsessed and he's determined to		Val McDermid
7cb2b6c	uncontrollable little nests of miscellany. He		Val McDermid
5969cb5	Her eyes widened and her mouth formed an anguished O. He had to admit, there was real pleasure in seeing her pay the price for her bitching and whining and moaning. She'd called men like him misogynists. That was the opposite of what they were. Men like him, they loved women. They understood the kind of life that suited women best. They knew what women really wanted. Proper women didn't want to be out there in the world, having to shout the..		Val McDermid
25791b9	To come up against someone who appeared not to give a damn about exerting petty power almost restored his faith in the public.	officialdom officials petty-people power-games petty	Val McDermid
c97a9e1	I've read the stories. Teenagers committing suicide because all they can see ahead of them is shame and disgrace. Kids running away from home because they feel like they've list their future. Well, I'm not having that happen to Torin.	hopelessness suicide child-pornography child-sexual-exploitation sexting shame	Val McDermid
0d5ca52	There's a thing called narcissistic personality disorder. People who have an inflated sense of their own importance, a lack of empathy for others. They're vain, they crave the power over others they think they deserve. They can be arrogant and callous. They think they're better than everybody else and they don't care who they trample on in their desire to get what they want.' 'A bit like Donald Trump, then?		Val McDermid
b444a8c	louring		Val McDermid
500dc65	What it had done, however, was to give him a feeling of power and control that had taken him back to how he used to feel every day.	revenge empowered controlling-people emasculation violent-death misogynist patriarchy power	Val McDermid
ed2d3d2	I just think sometimes, they were kids once. They ran about the park kicking a football. They had things they wanted to be. Nobody dreams about being that guy there. Nobody sets out to be like him. And we keep coming up against folk that have got themselves completely fucked up.		Val McDermid
09e3d46	'You're a very unusual man, Mark,' she'd said. 'That's nice of you to say so,' he said.	unusual-people serial-killer predator deception	Val McDermid
a6d444c	Her fight with alcohol had made for contentious exchanges and, if that were possible, even more contentious silences. Tony, empathetic to the point of self-harming, felt the pain of her abstinence as powerfully as anything he'd ever endured personally.	alcholism empath empathy-for-others recovering-alcoholism empathetic self-harm	Val McDermid
5335e96	Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power' Romeo and Juliet, II, iii		Val McDermid
8b741ad	You couldn't have everything. At least, not all at the same time.		Val McDermid
38e565c	sempiternal		Val McDermid
121d334	The habit of loving is definitely one to be cultivated.		Val McDermid
15c5d21	The abbey was vampire heaven.	vampires	Val McDermid
dc3ac93	Edwardian house in Worcester		Val McDermid
c033f91	Cat's passion for atmospheric architecture was only just second to her passion for Henry.	jane-austen-inspired	Val McDermid
1297b8f	macerating what was left of the organs, 'liver, a portion of the heart, a certain		Val McDermid
af93b39	thought		Val McDermid
ff76268	His face seemed to be in retreat from a sharp nose, as if he'd been caught in the teeth of a gale at birth.		Val McDermid

6e5c237

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness; let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death.' Michel de Montaigne, Essais (1580)

Val McDermid

e3b2609

As with arsenical candles and papers and fabrics, items become established in commerce before their dangers are recognized, ensuring that any attempt to curtail their use will be resisted by manufacturers ... and fought or ignored by politicians ideologically opposed to government interference ...' Gettler's

Val McDermid

a468dcf

They think of policemen as they do of Labradors - noble, loyal, good with children, man's protector and friend. In

Val McDermid

98d3575

Without work, without direction, his thoughts were like a hamster on a wheel, circling and dancing with no destination and no possibility of arrival. With

Val McDermid

e53b7c7

junction at the top of the stairs. She gave a curious glance down General Tilney's corridor, but she

Val McDermid

08fd4a6

The bodies of two murdered women have been found this week. For the record, I didn't kill either of them.

Val McDermid

48490a8

He spread his hands in a self-deprecating gesture. 'Well, I'm not a cop. And I'm not a woman.' She couldn't resist. 'I had noticed.

tony-hill

Val McDermid

049e3aa

Why are you only coming home just after three? Do you want a drink? I'm wide awake now.' He could be so like a small child, she thought. Out of nowhere, all eagerness and curiosity.

tony-hill

Val McDermid

0a92126

Admittedly, they [(places in novels)] didn't all have such ridiculous names as the ones in the Piddle Valley where her father's group of parishes was centered. It would have been hard to make credible a romantic fiction set in Farleigh Piddle, Middle Piddle, Nether Piddle and Piddle Dummer.

Val McDermid

331a6ab

It wasn't enough but it was a start. It might keep him going...

positive-affirmation hope-quote keeping-going make-a-change make-a-start not-enough positive-self-talk keep-going hopeful

Val McDermid

077f489

It had seemed a good idea at the time to order the furniture for her new home online from a chain retailer.

Val McDermid

dd75863

Her anger was a memory now. She didn't believe in bearing grudges. She believed in killing them where they lay.

Val McDermid

5e30c16

It's your fault because you got me into Morag Fraser. I'd never even heard of the Hebridean Harpies series till you dragged me along to her event. And now I am totally hooked. I was reading Vampires on Vatersay till one in the morning. I just had to finish it. And then I started Banshees of Berneray at breakfast and I could hardly drag myself away from it to come and meet you.

jane-austen val-mcdermid northanger-abbey

Val McDermid

7b66d37

The psychology of sanction.' 'If you're right, then why does anyone protest against torture? Why don't we all just go, "Oh well, we've seen how well it works in the movies, let's just go along with it"?' Carol leaned on her fists on the edge of his bed as she spoke, her tumbled blonde hair falling into her eyes. 'Carol, you might not have noticed, but there's a significant number of people out there who do say just that. Look at the opposit..

Val McDermid

4b08876

wyvern.

Val McDermid

baff6d6

Tell you what, just to prove I'm not, I'll let you top tonight. You'll be in charge. I'll be the one with handcuffs on.' Carry on like this and you won't be wrong, Merrick thought to himself.

Val McDermid

1e6b36f

I'm telling you the truth, Carol. Even though it's actually none of your business.' She half turned, found a smile from somewhere and said, 'You're quite right. It is none of my business. Till tomorrow Tony.

tony-hill

Val McDermid

466f1a5

Discovering dedicated mystery booksellers was a bit like going to heaven without having to die first

Val McDermid

2a53821

cliches got that way because they reflected reality. Better the devil you know. Don't take sweets from strangers.

Val McDermid

5258391

ziggurat

Val McDermid

4d32c57

kill. He's a man obsessed and he's determined to

Val McDermid

7cb2b6c

uncontrollable little nests of miscellany. He

Val McDermid

5969cb5

Her eyes widened and her mouth formed an anguished O. He had to admit, there was real pleasure in seeing her pay the price for her bitching and whining and moaning. She'd called men like him misogynists. That was the opposite of what they were. Men like him, they loved women. They understood the kind of life that suited women best. They knew what women really wanted. Proper women didn't want to be out there in the world, having to shout the..

Val McDermid

25791b9

To come up against someone who appeared not to give a damn about exerting petty power almost restored his faith in the public.

officialdom officials petty-people power-games petty

Val McDermid

c97a9e1

I've read the stories. Teenagers committing suicide because all they can see ahead of them is shame and disgrace. Kids running away from home because they feel like they've list their future. Well, I'm not having that happen to Torin.

hopelessness suicide child-pornography child-sexual-exploitation sexting shame

Val McDermid

0d5ca52

There's a thing called narcissistic personality disorder. People who have an inflated sense of their own importance, a lack of empathy for others. They're vain, they crave the power over others they think they deserve. They can be arrogant and callous. They think they're better than everybody else and they don't care who they trample on in their desire to get what they want.' 'A bit like Donald Trump, then?

Val McDermid

b444a8c

louring

Val McDermid

500dc65

What it had done, however, was to give him a feeling of power and control that had taken him back to how he used to feel every day.

revenge empowered controlling-people emasculation violent-death misogynist patriarchy power

Val McDermid

ed2d3d2

I just think sometimes, they were kids once. They ran about the park kicking a football. They had things they wanted to be. Nobody dreams about being that guy there. Nobody sets out to be like him. And we keep coming up against folk that have got themselves completely fucked up.

Val McDermid

09e3d46

'You're a very unusual man, Mark,' she'd said. 'That's nice of you to say so,' he said.

unusual-people serial-killer predator deception

Val McDermid

a6d444c

Her fight with alcohol had made for contentious exchanges and, if that were possible, even more contentious silences. Tony, empathetic to the point of self-harming, felt the pain of her abstinence as powerfully as anything he'd ever endured personally.

alcholism empath empathy-for-others recovering-alcoholism empathetic self-harm