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“I noticed that in Tokyo people didn’t smell. It was funny. I couldn’t smell them, and they didn’t say very much: the trains were packed but it was quite silent, like being jammed into a carriage with a thousand shop-window mannequins.”
― Mo Hayder, Tokio

“I'm not very good at knowing what other people are thinking, but I do know that you can see tragedy, real tragedy, sitting just inside a person's gaze. You can almost always see where a person has been if you look hard enough.”
― Mo Hayder, The Devil of Nanking

“Sometimes people forget to be sympathetic and instead they blame you for everything, even for the things you did when you had no idea they were wrong.”
― Mo Hayder, The Devil of Nanking

“I am a very boring and unpleasant man, drowned in literature... But I love you.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera