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“Love can be so strange and sad. It can be hard to understand why we run toward certain people and away from others at different times in our lives. Why we search so hard for that thing we are looking for, and then run so fast when we find it.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories

“No one in France has that accent. No one has a French accent like that, except on TV, when English actors show that they are French by speaking English in a French accent that no French person ever actually uses. But we have come to accept that. We want Hercule Poirot because it sounds intelligent and travelled and cultured and everything that we’re not, British or Asian.”
― Neil Humphreys, Bloody Foreigners

“It was bushy-bearded John Peabody, eating by himself, his suitcase on the floor beside his chair.”
― Randall Garrett, Lord Darcy

“Cultural connections? Where did you learn that? In your metropolitan police cultural classes? He was an Indian Muslim. I’m a Chinese bastard. Apart from eating satay, I’ve probably got more in common with you than him. And we’ve got nothing in common.”
― Neil Humphreys, Bloody Foreigners