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“The thought of a journalist with a grenade launcher makes me very nervous,” came D’Agosta’s voice out of the darkness."

"Norman attempted to scream, to tell her to run, to at least draw attention from passersby. Nothing happened. He couldn’t move. Not a muscle. Not a thing, including his lungs. He figured he had two minutes left."

"Now, let me see if I understand this,” he said with insulting sweetness, the parody of a father humoring a foolish son. “You want to blow up the Astor Tunnels. Do I have it right?”😳

"She turned to Peavy. “If a sniper were using a quadrocopter with an AR-15, what sort of countermeasures could you employ?”
Peavy thought for a few seconds before answering. “You’d best take him out first.”

"We never take a killer’s word that his victims have been selected at random. Some make that claim simply because it terrifies more people than if they were to say they had a specific target, like world leaders. Some make the claim purely as a diversionary tactic."

"A hut, built entirely of human skulls,” Margo mused. “You know, I’ve heard of that before. I think there was a mention of something like that in Whittlesey’s journal.”

"Have you forgotten the delicacy of track rabbit au vin, spit-roasted over an open fire?”🐀😫

"Gabriel stiffened; the accent was American and he thought he recognized the voice. He turned slowly. Raymond Queneau stood there, smiling. He reached into his coat and removed a large automatic pistol."

"He assumed, in a surprisingly detached sort of way, that it was an arm; it had to be an arm, yet it felt slippery and so very strong. Then, almost immediately, he felt a curious digging sensation just below his Adam’s apple. Yes, it was a most curious sensation, indeed."😵

"Life is all about arranging your priorities,’ he said. ‘If I may say so. Get them securely in place – know exactly what’s truly important to you – then you can cope with all the other sh*t that will inevitably come your way.’"

"Wait a minute,” Smithback said. “Their flesh eaten? You mean there is a group of cannibals down here, murdering people and stealing their heads?”

"When you’re young you’re not storing away memories or impressions. Life just washes over you – it happens, uncommented-on."

"‘She wants me to do a job, a little “favour”, like the little favours I do for you.’"😣

"Solitude, when chosen, can feel like such a gift."

"In my mind’s eye I see him still, like one those once grand but now condemned apartment blocks, moments after the demolition charges have been exploded: for a few seconds, the façade remains bizarrely intact, before slowly beginning to slide."

"There had been a strange kind of peace adrift on the ocean, even if it was a peace close to annihilation."

"I have no opinion on the human condition, except perhaps that it’s best not examined too closely."

"Bad luck confirmed Maurice’s worldview, but it played havoc with Maralyn’s. She believed in almost everything, bar God. She believed in luck and fortune, in third time lucky. “Destiny, fate, kismet, call it what you will,” she wrote. “I believe that each happening in our lives prepares us for some eventual test.”

"It was impossible to discourage her, even with facts."

"I always say you can’t beat sitting in front of a TV screen if you’re after that authentic, firsthand experience. For example, it’s curious how helicopter news shots impart to even the most innocent activity the dangerous whiff of criminality."

"It is an irresistible thought, that we might be someone different somewhere else."

"People who succeed in life are rarely reflective. Their gaze is always on the future: that’s why they succeed."

"She whipped forth her other arm and stabbed her karambit knife through his palm. As he screamed, she twisted on one leg, lowered her hip, and snapped out a kick with the other."😦

“They are known to cast spells that cause trespassers to fall into a deep sleep.” Archie shrugged. “That doesn’t sound so bad.”“Then the witches drain your blood or drown you in a mountain spring.”😥

"In the second when she felt him loosen his grip on the gun, she wrenched it out of his hand and dashed out the doorway the man had left open."😵

"No matter how careful . . . someone always makes a mistake.”

"Maybe that’s the history of the world right there, people who can’t get along spreading their hurt out to everybody else."

"Thinking about the consequences of failure was like thinking about falling from a high place: it would distract her, weaken her, and make her afraid."

"A muffled cough and the guardsman’s head jerked back, followed by his body. He struck the front door with a clatter and the others closed in on him."

"Danny knew he never deserved but took anyway, and that’s what he feels as he takes the Ocala exit, that he wants something he has no right to, that he’s asking for something he should never ever get."