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"No, I keep my guns locked up because on bad days, really bad days, it makes it that much harder for me to get my hands on them and go walking through the streets killing random strangers until the police come and shoot me down."😳

"As one old couplet goes, “The ship what on a Friday sails, is sure to meet with stormy gales.” However, it was not superstition that threatened the voyage. It was the Isabella itself and its leadership."

"But as Becker knew, it took only one determined adversary to change your life."

"She had never looked for that dreadful American thing, closure—being perfectly content for it all to be there, packed in the recesses, never to be aired again—and certainly not for revenge."

"Eric and me, we went and built a hydrogen bomb for home defense. And it turns out, once a thing gets too big, all you can do is make it bigger. See how many times you can blow up the world.”

"If this adventure has shown him one thing, it is that you become less agile in every way as you age. Once this one is over that will be it for him. A sad thought, but there you are."

"Where they burn books, in the end they also burn people,’” - Heinrich Heine 1821.”

"Life and death aren’t on opposite ends of some spectrum. They’re next-door neighbors."

"It is winter that brings arthritis, the inability to venture far, the seclusion that imprisonment at home denotes, the reinforcement of helplessness and uselessness. And she knows that despite the impression of cozy, tucked-up warmth, she may be anything but safe. The wolf lurks, yet his tune is siren-like. She must keep her wits about her.

"Talk bleeds away the passion that could otherwise lead to action."

"The deepest conspiracies are the ones we ourselves are a part of. The ones that are running around us all the time, around us and through us too. Conspiracy to keep the machine greased and running, conspiracy to not see what’s in front of our eyes, conspiracy to say it is what it is instead of it is what we built it to be."

“Why’s there nothing sadder than finding out the world is exactly the way you think it is?”

"You can wrap yourself in plastic, you can lock yourself down, but something will always get through the shield. One way or another. Because there is no such thing as loss prevention."

"Gray slowly rose from the chair. He was too old for this job. He was not up to it anymore. The truth had been dancing in front of his eyes this whole time."

"I’m sorry to say, in this world… it feels like palliative care is all that makes sense these days. Sometimes the best you can do is dilute the suffering to tolerable levels. Do what you can. But carefully.”

"The last thing a defendant wants to do is put themselves through the ordeal of cross-examination. Not if they’re smart enough to avoid it.'

"With gunshots splattering all around him he launched himself through the glass doors, shattering them in the process. A split second later he heard a bomb go off inside the hospital."

"Four years ago, when she had fed three bottles of OxyContin to Frank’s second wife, Heather, he should have known that things had not changed."😣

"It was a full ten minutes before Peters and Reinke began to stir. By the time they had regained consciousness, the Camel Club was long gone."

"All that she had worked for would unravel because of one stupid mistake and one lucky shot with a camera. She needed to act. Tonight. Now. Get the photos. Kill the photographer."😦

"Telling the truth would be counterintuitive for it as well as having no historical basis. Spies always lie.”

"The burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt lay with the prosecution, but the burden of having an innocent client on trial for murder was a much heavier one. Innocence weighs a ton."

"Take out? As in, what, assassination!” Brennan said, scowling. “We don’t do that anymore. It’s illegal.”🙄😂

"Old age always sneaks up on one, but once it’s fully present, the effects are hardly subtle,”

"Sometimes it’s more important to be silent than to be right."

"Rules of engagement separate the illegal violence from the legal, from the encouraged violence, the celebrated violence. Is it a surprise that all this sanctioned violence leaks into other spheres?"

"They were dying, too. Oh yes, the mujahideen were continuing to die in far, far greater numbers than the Soviets and their Afghan allies. But the mujahideen go straight to Paradise, where the pleasures are so sweet. There is no heaven for the unbelievers."

"She supposes there are many different ways to love. Hate is much simpler."

"As Ghaffar crossed the Pakistan border, moved into the tribal zone, and then began traveling across the dry and wasted landscape of southern Afghanistan, he and his men looked little different from their greatgrandfathers, who had twice shattered British invasions in the nineteenth century."

"Sometimes we compound the lies we tell each other with lies we tell ourselves, denying that what we’re doing is lying, or denying that lying is bad, or denying that lying has consequences. Denying that facts are facts. Denying that truth has meaning."