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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dfcbb89 | book, banging in the full stops until it looked as if he would break his pen. | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 1d2bdce | Caspian burst into gales of laughter. "I suppose you were" | Ruth Rendell | ||
| a32c1cf | hair, oiled and satiny, | Ruth Rendell | ||
| a40b446 | This would be a feather in its cap. | Ruth Rendell | ||
| f2e3f1f | most thumbed | Ruth Rendell | ||
| e694d1a | in a squalid, run-down house in the worst | Ruth Rendell | ||
| ec1b525 | The trouble with psychology," said Wexford epigrammatically, 'is that it doesn't take human nature into account." | Ruth Rendell | ||
| a38e8b1 | scuttled through | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 04d710f | euphoria he felt after | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 424987e | an early harbinger of the winter to come. Stanley | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 0c25a38 | stumped in at ten past ten, wearing a checked windcheater that looked as if it was made from a car rug, | Ruth Rendell | ||
| ee4133a | Forcing the carefully planned lie out with all the casualness he could muster, he said, | Ruth Rendell | ||
| a1d7468 | Stanley looked at him truculently. | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 4d82329 | in case anyone might think I was snooping. | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 231495c | tell them all this? Wexford had no idea. Because | Ruth Rendell | ||
| ec4a9ea | aglow with light from Room | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 06fc5ba | personal affront and, in a way, a desecration | Ruth Rendell | ||
| c680a0b | therapy, a quick assuagement. But there | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 205e89b | were altered and aggrandised by enormous fantasy. | Ruth Rendell | ||
| f27d465 | trickle of water fell between | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 0e74445 | insinuating approach a child molester would use? "If you" | Ruth Rendell | ||
| d7b3ebd | some Haitian gangster-cum-political bigwig. He had seen such characters | Ruth Rendell | ||
| bb6fea4 | mauve-grey envelope | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 5b3b2b5 | presumptuous | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 75e2134 | talked dolefully about his job--he sold antiques in a shop owned | Ruth Rendell | ||
| e21cc0d | It was all very well to talk of absence making the heart grow fonder, but "out of sight, out of mind" | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 24ddb38 | It was all very well to talk of absence making the heart grow fonder, but "out of sight, out of mind" might be just as true a truism. He hadn't" | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 47f8e53 | Or an amicable pair," said Sam. "Sorry?" "In math, that's what we call two numbers each of which is equal to the sum of the divisors of the other. The smallest ones, 220 and 284, were regarded by the Pythagoreans as symbols of true friendship." | Reginald Hill | ||
| 40b91e0 | Buses and trains both set you thinking, but not in the same way. Trains give you a rhythm, sent you into dreams, cut you off from reality. Buses were always stopping and starting; traffic, road-junctions, lights; and of course, bus-stops. The world you passed through was observable. And real. So was the world inside your head. Buses were good places to worry on. | Reginald Hill | ||
| f0b70b1 | a politician's capacity to ignore contradictory evidence | Reginald Hill | ||
| 091f979 | For the first time, she felt she'd laid a glove on Doll Trapp. 'Well, you really are full of surprises,' she said. 'Interesting theory. I'd be careful who you share it with. Now, where was I?' That | Reginald Hill | ||
| 42df4d8 | Middlefield. | Reginald Hill | ||
| 2b88780 | tyro psychiatrist who provided the topic for a great deal of their conversation. | Reginald Hill | ||
| ac0082d | Meticulousness is the better part of serendipity. | Reginald Hill | ||
| 163f7ff | He was full of the glossy self-regard of men who shrugged off their importance in a way that only emphasized it. | Reginald Hill | ||
| 9a87813 | Jefferson exploded with guilt: "The torment of mind, I will endure till the moment shall arrive when I shall not owe a shilling on earth is such really as to render life of little value." | Ronald Takaki | ||
| 9c59d23 | The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do. If a parent could find no motive either in his phil.. | Ronald Takaki | ||
| 3771963 | What I find is that most people don't know the fact that they don't know, because of the complete lack of information."4" | Ronald Takaki | ||
| 38973ab | War is our only recourse. There is no other remedy. | Ronald Takaki | ||
| b0d8b0d | War exists notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it."8" | Ronald Takaki | ||
| b2d2d01 | Chinese men were seen as sensuous creatures, especially interested in white women. A writer for the New York Times reported that he noticed "a handsome but squalidly dressed young white girl" in an opium den and inquired about her. The owner replied: "Oh, hard time in New York. Young girl hungry. Plenty come here. Chinaman always have something to eat, and he like young white girl. He! He!" | Ronald Takaki | ||
| 216cef3 | At the state's constitutional convention of 1878, John F. Miller warned: "Were the Chinese to amalgamate at all with our people, it would be the lowest, most vile and degraded of our race, and the result of that amalgamation would be a hybrid of the most despicable, a mongrel of the most detestable that has ever afflicted the earth." Two years later, California lawmakers enacted legislation to prohibit the issuance of a license authorizing .. | Ronald Takaki | ||
| 73aace2 | In 1852, of the 11,794 Chinese in California, only seven were women. | Ronald Takaki | ||
| 25e3ea1 | Children of narcissists emerge from this crucible with a common and most serious problem. They feel that they do not have the right to exist. | Elan Golomb |