“You are one, and we are many, We are everywhere and nowhere at the same time. We are the face of justice.”
― The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity
― The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity
“Like the blind man said as he wandered into a cannibal village . . .
“Alright! The country fair must be right up ahead. I smell barbecue!”
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“Alright! The country fair must be right up ahead. I smell barbecue!”
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“It was as if the past, till then so longed after, so lived over, had slipped off my shoulders like a burden. The future was still hidden, somewhere in the lights that made a yellow blur in the sky beyond the end of the dark street. Here between the two I waited, and for the first time saw both clearly.... I had made myself a stranger in England, not only bereaved, but miserably dépaysée, drifting with no clear aim, resenting the life I had been thrust into with such tragic brutality; I had refused to adapt myself to it and make myself a place there, behaving like the spoiled child who, because he cannot have the best cake, refuses to eat at all. I had waited for life to offer itself back to me on the old terms. Well, it wasn't going to.”
― Nine Coaches Waiting
― Nine Coaches Waiting
“She’s a cop’s wife. She understands what her husband does for a living,” the priest said.”
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
“Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.”
― My Reading Life
― My Reading Life
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