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“Of course, punishment is important,’ snaps Petit, feeling nettle once more. ‘ it is the contract that the criminal makes with society - he commits an act against the individual, which is the same as to commit and act against society, and in return, he knows he must receive punishment.”
― Marcus Sedgwick, Mister Memory

“There was a life Chris hadn't been able to take in his grasp. Families, driveways, trampolines, friends around for dinner. All the stuff you'd see on adverts. Was this forever now? The lonely flat with the neutral walls and the Sky Sports. Maybe there was a way out, but Chris couldn't immediately spot it. Treading water, getting fatter, laughing less. Chris was out of rocket fuel. It was lucky that Chris loved his job, was good at his job. Chris always found it easy to get up in the morning; he just found it hard to go to sleep at night.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“Enygma nods as if that is proper police procedure when dealing with imaginary siblings, and again he writes in his notebook.”
― Hazell Ward, The Game Is Murder

“Life is never easy,” I told him. “There are different kinds of difficult, and one must choose between them.“
“Some lives are considerably easier than others, inspector.“
“Perhaps. Such things are never discernible from the outside, however. Only the one living the life can judge.”
― Sophie Hannah (author), Hercule Poirot's Silent Night