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Once a Monster

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Rebecca

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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

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“If you take the final betrayal out of it,' he said, 'he was a fine agent - one of the best.'
I stared at him. 'That's one way of putting it,' I replied. 'If you take the bomb out of it, 6 August was probably a nice day in Hiroshima.”
― Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim

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“How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home? This lost, I decide. Precisely this lost.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

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“Too little information and you're blind, too much and you're blinded.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

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“Never confuse education with intelligence – you can have a Ph.D. and still be an idiot.”
― Terry Hayes, The Year of the Locust

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“It's never the deviants who are the problem, puss. Don't forget that. It's the people who won't open their minds that are dangerous.”
― Lucy Ribchester, The Hourglass Factory

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