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Book cover for Easy Street: The Hard Way

Easy Street: The Hard Way by Ron Perlman

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“We like people for their qualities, but we love them for their defects.” In writing this line I meant to say that we must not simply “accept” imperfection when it is revealed to us—we must celebrate it. This, I assure you, is the true sign ...more

Guillermo del Toro

Metro 2034

by Dmitry Glukhovsky

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Khris’s Quotes

“They were not using blanks. This was for real, and he knew with sudden shock, that it was as he had earlier deduced. He was being thrown to the wolves.”
― John Gardner, Role of Honour: A James Bond thriller

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“James Bond could hardly believe it. A KGB man was actually inviting him into the spider’s web, under the pretext of witnessing the theft of a large quantity of arms.”
― John Gardner, Icebreaker: A James Bond thriller

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“What happened next took no more than three seconds. But looking back, as I sometimes do now when I’m unable to sleep, I see it unfolding in slow motion. The beginning of all that followed.”
― Mark Edwards, Keep Her Secret

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“Bond had a feeling that he was, indeed, lucky to be alive. He also wondered if his luck was merely a stay of execution.”
― John Gardner, Role of Honour: A James Bond thriller

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“SMERSH has what I understand is called, in criminal parlance, a hit list. That list includes a number of names – people who are wanted, not dead, but alive. Can you imagine whose name is number one on the chart, James Bond?’ Bond did not have to guess. SMERSH had undergone many changes, but as a Department of the Russian Service, SMERSH had a very long memory.”
― John Gardner, Icebreaker: A James Bond thriller

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