“What beats me—it always does—is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.”
― The Pale Horse
― The Pale Horse
“was easy to push people away when you knew how. Bel had a clean record; she was very, very good at it. Making people leave her before they chose to go anyway. Same result in the end, because everybody left eventually, but it hurt less. That was what life was, choosing the way that hurt less.”
― The Reappearance of Rachel Price
― The Reappearance of Rachel Price
“One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within 24 hours you nearly always come across it again”
― The Pale Horse
― The Pale Horse
“Hey Sarge, remember me?”
― As Good As Dead
― As Good As Dead
“because everybody left eventually, but it hurt less. That was what life was, choosing the way that hurt less.”
― The Reappearance of Rachel Price
― The Reappearance of Rachel Price
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