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“There were many causes of his unhappiness, but at heart I believe now, as I believed then, that it was essentially the result of growing up in a household, and a world, where emotional expression of any kind was at best frowned on and at worst strangled.”
― The Alienist
― The Alienist
“Justice is, after all, in the hands of men and men are fallible.”
― Ordeal by Innocence
― Ordeal by Innocence
“So many books, so little time.”
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“They’ll want him to be mad, of course,’ Laszlo mused, not hearing me. ‘The doctors here, the newspapers, the judges; they’d like to think that only a madman would shoot a five-year-old girl in the head. It creates certain … difficulties, if we are forced to accept that our society can produce sane men who commit such acts.”
― The Alienist
― The Alienist
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