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“A lock is like a woman,” he’d said blearily. “You have to seduce it into giving up its secrets.” He was one of Per Haskell’s old cronies, happy to talk about better days and big scams, especially if it meant he didn’t have to do much work. And that was exactly the kind of muddled wisdom these old cadgers loved to spout. Sure, a lock was like a woman. It was also like a man and anyone or anything else—if you wanted to understand it, you had to take it apart and see how it worked. If you wanted to master it, you had to learn it so well you could put it back together.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Books are my salvation, but they are also my damnation.”
― Aashi Rath

“Jay smiled, pleased. There it was. What he came for. When he left, he forgot to take the cake.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“You were born a piece of shit and you’ll die a piece of shit just like every other piece of shit on this planet!”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising