“Americans have always thought they had a democracy form of government. We don’t. We have a constitutional republic – a representative form of government.”
― Miss Alphie's Secret
― Miss Alphie's Secret
“The Aryans were a made-up race of blond supermen, which the Nazis had convinced the German people they belonged to.”
― White Rose, Black Forest
― White Rose, Black Forest
“Those last few months of her mother’s life were agonizing in their beauty, miserable in their wonder. Her mother slipped away with effortless grace.”
― White Rose, Black Forest
― White Rose, Black Forest
“But it was that core group of popular girls who moved in a pack, like wolves, and loved to pick on anyone weaker than them who made it quite clear that I did not belong.”
― The Tuscan Child
― The Tuscan Child
“had met his kind of policeman before. They were the sort who saw no problem with planting evidence, writing false reports, employing deceitful witnesses, using force in their interrogations of suspects. They existed on every police force in every country. And the problem was that they knew how to work the system. They knew how to talk in court, how to present their evidence in a way that was hard to refute. They hid behind their immaculate uniform and badge and misused their power. And judges tended to believe every word that came out of their dirty, corrupted mouths.”
― The Dead Sister
― The Dead Sister
Lara’s 2024 Year in Books
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