Edward Kennedy

“Compressing the arteries that feed his brain.” “You can’t do that.” “What, it was OK to murder him the first time, but not the second time?” “It’s wrong.” “It was right the first time, when he was a piece of shit who was about to rape you at gunpoint. Did he change? Did he suddenly become some kind of a saintly martyr we should rush straight to the hospital? When did that part happen?” “How long will this take?” “Not long. He wasn’t well to begin with.”
― Lee Child, Make Me

“Shoshana was gazing at the armament in lust, like a pothead entering a Colorado marijuana store for the first time. She stroked one of the systems and said, “May I?”
― Brad Taylor, The Insider Threat

“Forty thousand suicides every year in America. One every thirteen minutes. Statistically we’re more likely to kill ourselves than each other.”
― Lee Child, Make Me

“At the time of the Cognitive Revolution, the planet was home to about 200 genera of large terrestrial mammals weighing over 100 pounds. At the time of the Agricultural Revolution, only about a hundred remained. Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planet’s big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing, or iron tools.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind