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Couples still indulge in courting rituals, humans still kill humans, and politicians still kiss babies and lie.
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I'm not stupid." No, Eve thought, you redefine the word."
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Everyone likes everybody and Pettibone is the original nice guy." "Wife's a dink," Peabody offered. "The dink was still smart enough to hook a rich husband."
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call woke
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Comes off like she's got the mental capacity of broccoli,
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course, but it was more for form than from
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The media's no more objective than the last ratings term.
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It's rare in war for either side to consider the innocent." Why"
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life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered." A"
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those rent with option deals. You can do that
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It's more than you think it can be," she heard herself say. "It changes everything, and fixes everything that matters. Maybe you're never going to be the same, and maybe part of you is always afraid of what will happen if . . . but he's always going to be there. All you have to do is reach out, and he's going to be there." Surprised"
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I've got a tip." "Me, too. Let a smile be your umbrella and you're gonna get your dumb ass wet."
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Thank you, Lieutenant." "Which is why you are now assigned to me as my permanent aide. You want a detective shield, Officer?" Peabody knew what she was being given: the opportunity, the gift out of nowhere. She closed her eyes a moment until she had her voice under control. "Yes, sir, I do." "Good. You'll work your ass off for it. Get the data I requested, and let's move." "Right away." At the door, Peabody paused, turned back. "I'm very gr..
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Champagne for my wife," he said without taking his eyes off her. He drew her chair back himself. "Let me introduce you to Natalie and Sam Derrick." "So this is Eve! I'm just thrilled to meet you." Natalie flashed a mile-wide grin, even as her gaze tracked over Eve's clothes. "Glad you could join us." Sam held out a hand the size of a rump roast, pumped Eve's twice. "Roarke's told us it's hard for you to get away from work." "I just can't th..
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She used her master to gain access to the dumpy three-story walk-up, ignored the rickety elevator, and took the stairs to the top floor.
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Mr. Ail-American
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The mind, and the unconscious mind in particular, is a canvas. We paint on it constantly. Art and music can add such colors, such style.
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Creating life is the job of a higher power. It's our job, our duty and our joy, to nurture life, protect and respect it.
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Replicating human beings in a lab, selecting traits, eliminating others. Who decides what are the parameters? What of the failures, as there must be in any sort of experimentation of procedures.
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Whatever our DNA, it's living and being that make us.
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I've never told anybody before." "Did it help?" "I don't know. Maybe. Christ, I'm so tired." "You could lean on me." He slipped an arm around her, nestled her head in the curve of his shoulder. "For a little while," she murmured. "Until we get to New York." "For a little while then." He pressed his lips to her hair and hoped she would sleep."
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Bet you haven't had time to rub on the breast cream either." She turned on Roarke. "Some reason you can't slap some on your hands before you feel her up?" "I do try," he said, throwing Eve to the wolves without a qualm. "She's a difficult woman." "Let"
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Rather than trust her reflexes, she programmed for auto. And hoped the jokers down in Maintenance hadn't played any pranks with the mechanism. Still, she was too tired to care if she ended up in Hoboken.
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The service bar in the parlor had been lightly used, some macadamias and
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when you have politics, you have corruption." "Possibly."
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And since even the thought of winter precipitation caused the majority of drivers to lose any shred of competency they might own, she spent most of her trip avoiding, leapfrogging over, and cursing every cab and commuter. The
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The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility. Francis Bacon More
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The computer hummed, sliced Roarke's face onto the screen. Such an intriguing couple. His background was no prettier than the cop's had been. But he'd chosen, at least initially, the other side of the law to make his mark. And his fortune. Now they were a set. A set that could be destroyed on a whim. But not yet. Not for some little time yet. After all, the game had just begun.
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He was out of line,
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Lawrence
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up. "He's hardly my type,"
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there. Politics is a bartering game.
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uncomfortable. Each had followers who were so sure they were right, that their way was the only way. And throughout history they'd fought wars and shed oceans of blood to prove it.
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turbulent eyes. "I didn't realize."
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Good hunting, Lieutenant." "Thanks. Hey, you've got a lot of businesses to protect." He turned in his doorway. "One or two." "Zillion," she finished. "The point being, you've got fail-safes and contingencies and whatever. Various people who'd do various things when in the dim, distant future, you die at two hundred and six after we have hot shower sex."
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grandeur." chapter seventeen Harrison Tibble was a thirty-five-year vet on the police force."
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good sex, a hot shower, then bacon? Did a morning get any better?
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He'd have made billions on this," Eve added. "Grossed." "I'll say it's gross." "No, no." It was a relief to laugh. "Gross income. It would cost-has to cost enormously to run the labs, develop the technology, the school, the network. The net income would be substantial, I'd think, but Eve, the cost, the risk? I think you're looking at a labor of love."
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We begin to die with our first breath. Death is inside us, ticking closer, closer, with every beat of our heart. It is the end no man can escape. Yet we cling to life, we worship it despite its transience. Or perhaps, because of it. But all the while, we wonder of death. We build monuments to it, revere it with our rituals. What will our death be? we ask ourselves. Will it be sudden and swift, long and lingering? Will there be pain? Will it..
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Running a bit behind today," he told them. "Sent off for tox as you'd flagged that. Shouldn't take long." She glanced down at the body. Morris hadn't yet made his Y cut. "What can you tell me just from the visual?" "Lieutenant, this woman is dead."
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it made her look younger, more fit. It increased her energy and her sexual drive.
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Her body arched backward so forcefully that he almost lost her to the sea. He was so startled by her sudden
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Quero ve-lo morto, mas ele ja esta morto - Roarke fletiu os nos dos dedos doridos. - Por isso nao posso fazer nada. E ainda assim, quero enfiar-lhe os punhos na cara; queria ter-lhe arrancado o coracao do peito antes mesmo de ele ter encostado um dedo em ti. Daria tudo o que tenho se o pudesse fazer. Mas em vez disso, nao posso fazer nada.
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