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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8ba5a31 | Revenge is the foolish stepbrother of justice. I understood | Adrian McKinty | ||
| 04ece5c | sallow-faced, balding, heavy lidded, Uriah Heep of a man, Kevin | Adrian McKinty | ||
| d96c028 | I'd met spooks and blades and they lied like they had invented the concept. | Adrian McKinty | ||
| e1a1eba | I'm not down with the kids, though, am I? And you still haven't answered my question. What's an SEP?" "Someone else's problem, Sean," Matty said, with a heavy and significant sigh." | Adrian McKinty | ||
| 7926d6a | Don't trust whitey and whitey is fucking everywhere. We walked | Adrian McKinty | ||
| d6bacdd | encouraging nod of the head. Through the gigantic glass windows, | Adrian McKinty | ||
| 1dc6629 | Olann an cat cluin bainne leis. | Adrian McKinty | ||
| 576c052 | Kate and Kendrick were those rare English bureaucrats who lived in the future not the past, something that no one in Ireland ever did. | Adrian McKinty | ||
| 470d84f | realized the exec | P.T. Deutermann | ||
| 517f01b | planned to | P.T. Deutermann | ||
| 5878aab | anymore, just reacting. Suddenly the beating stopped and hands were grabbing at his legs. He kicked back at them, but it was no use. He simply wasn't strong enough. When they pulled him out from under the coal car, one of the Jap sergeants was standing there with a pistol in his hand. Gar figured this was it and, at that juncture, almost didn't care. The other prisoners had stopped working when Gar had cold-cocked the little Jap. The sergea.. | P.T. Deutermann | ||
| 05325e6 | And otherwise, do not speak. Okay?" He stepped out of the stateroom and" | P.T. Deutermann | ||
| fd8833e | one who told me I would be taken to Ofuna, which I later learned is--was--their naval interrogation center." "He did not question you?" "No, sir. He said there would be specialists for that. Experts." "Torturers, you mean," Captain Wilson said. "I've heard about Ofuna." "Did you reveal anything to him or anyone else while in his custody?" "Yes, sir, I did. I spoke to the CO of the carrier when he offered me a gun so I could shoot myself." ".. | P.T. Deutermann | ||
| 33d9b8f | Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism. | Anthony de Mello | ||
| a18589f | He felt that the job was not particularly hazardous physically but was incredibly hazardous emotionally and too often led to divorce, alcoholism, and suicide. No, policemen were not danger lovers, they were seekers of the awesome, the incredible, even the unspeakable in human experience. Never mind whether they could interpret, never mind if it was potentially hazardous to the soul. To be there was the thing. | Joseph Wambaugh | ||
| 33f4503 | Hareem was speaking with the | Joseph Wambaugh | ||
| 2c66de3 | was always taught that the man is the master of the house and you just accept what he wants. | Joseph Wambaugh | ||
| e2b3eba | Not that Danny seemed intent on fucking it up, just that he was a man after all, and no one knew better than Luther himself how completely a man could step on his own dick when what he thought he wanted contradicted what he knew he needed. The | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 9fe0ee6 | The driver got out. He looked like a cop--blond crew cut, red face, white shirt, black-and-gold nylon tie, the heft of his gut dropping over his belt buckle like a stack of pancakes. The other one looked sick. He was skinny and tired-looking and stayed in his seat, one hand gripping his skull through greasy black hair, staring into the side-view mirror as the three boys came around near the driver's door. The beefy one crooked a finger at t.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 9600bf3 | There is no salvation till they have seen their basic prejudice. | Anthony de Mello | ||
| cf10532 | When you have the single mind, you look on your circumstances as God-given opportunities for the furtherance of the gospel, and you rejoice at what God is going to do instead of complaining about what God did not do. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 7500ea3 | As the choir went by, he saw a girl who made him blink a couple of times. Head erect, a posture like she knew who she was, a passionate face and you knew there was a body underneath that robe. She moved through the light from the stained-glass windows, now gold, no red, now blue, like heaven's police car was pulling her over for being too fine. (178) | Joe Ide | ||
| ff88133 | What Mariah Carey should be telling them is to follow their abilities and make a dream out of what God gave them. | Joe Ide | ||
| 733236a | No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly. | Anthony de Mello | ||
| f0c30ad | My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth. | Anthony de Mello | ||
| 22a8895 | Inland Florida was not the Florida of blue ocean, white sand, and crushed-white-shell parking lots. It was a land sun bleached and sickened after too many droughts and wildfires. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 689ff0a | I'm getting dissed way too much lately." "Probably because you date defense attorneys who think a good wardrobe makes up for that lack-of-brains thing." "I turned on my chair. "Oh, you know her?" "No, I've heard half the mean in the twelfth ward to, though" "Hiss," I said. "Meow." She gave me a rueful smile as she lit another cigarette. "Cat's got to have claws to make it a fight. What I hear, all she's got is a nice briefcase, great hair, .. | otp squee | Dennis Lehane | |
| 203a0e3 | Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?" "No, sir." "Gods don't think they can become men." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 50d983a | That when a woman moves on, she doesn't look back, and I'm that woman. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 5c35eb8 | But what? No one's good, no one's bad. Everyone's just trying to make their way. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 5143ba5 | Charming as he was, you never felt fully comfortable with the guy, because he never seemed fully comfortable with himself. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 9c43ce1 | After I left Brandon, I met Dominique at the Neptune Oyster in the North End. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 1f98e10 | Bob, who had never been late in his life, suspected there was something hostile at the core of people who always were. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 0072da7 | That if you believe, really believe, and if your strategy is sound, and if you're willing to leave everything you've got on the field of battle to win the day"--he held his arms wide--"you can do anything." She'd" | Dennis Lehane | ||
| c28e70b | For a moment-maybe even a succession of moments and none sharp enough to point to as the cause-he'd been happy. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 16a24e1 | What they didn't tell you about absolute power was that it was never absolute; the instant you had it, someone had already lined up to try to take it away. Princes could sleep soundly, but never kings. The ear was always tuned for the creak on the | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 130b6f9 | I'm alone," Angie had told me a month ago. "No, you're not." "You're not alone," I said, my arms wrapped around her from behind. "Yes, I am. And all your holding and all your love can't change that right now." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| b82d04d | People were lost and people were scared and their lynch ropes couldn't reach bankers or stockbrokers, so they looked for targets closer to home. | inequality social-fabric | Dennis Lehane | |
| 8978a39 | We all know who you are, Mr. Coughlin. Famous Yankee gangster. Friend of the colonel. It would be safer for a man to swim into the middle of the ocean and cut his own throat than to threaten you.' He solemnly made the sign of the cross. 'But when people starve and have nowhere to go, where would you have them end up?' 'Not on my land,' Joe said. 'But it is not your land. It's God's. You are renting it. This rum? This life?' He patted his c.. | land land-ownership life | Dennis Lehane | |
| 80f293c | Do you know what it's like to fight with someone every day? Someone who claims to dislike conflict but who in fact lives for it? | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 5cd8f20 | Only a child thinks life is about her wants. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| af2f8ec | moaned his final breath into the imitation Oriental. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 97f527b | If it's ever within your power to do so, she considered saying aloud to Brian (but didn't), you have to bear witness to your dead. You simply have to. You have to step into the energy field of whatever remains of their spirit, their soul, their essence and let it pass through your body. And in the passing, maybe a wisp of it adheres to you, grafts itself to your cells. And in this communion, the dead continue to live. Or strive to. Instead, | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 56baecd | No, a guy had one on the T when I was coming over here. I work in Cambridge. | Dennis Lehane |