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'For the cockroach may not have the swaggering good looks required by the frivolous norms of this daft society we’ve had the dubious fortune to live in, but both the underrated arthropod and yours truly are characterised by an unmatched instinct for survival, an overwhelming appetite and a leonine libido that won’t relent even under extreme radiation levels.’

"did I say?” she asked, projecting a shower of biscuit crumbs." Zafon, Carlos Ruiz (2009-06-13). The Angel's Game (Kindle Location 5809). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

"On the other side of the park a forest of factories and gas towers multiplied toward the horizon, the soot from the chimneys diluted in the black rain that plummeted from the sky like tears of tar." Zafon, Carlos Ruiz (2009-06-13). The Angel's Game (Kindle Locations 5067-5068). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

"Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health."

The faint glow from the corridor cast only a vaporous thread of light through the hole into the space beyond, and all I could perceive was a murky gloom.

"It seems that in the advance stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies."

"I fell into one of the armchairs, one of those pieces of furniture designed to cradle the backsides of princes and generalissimos with a predilection for coups d'etat."

world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot. Zafon, Carlos Ruiz (2005-01-25). The Shadow of the Wind (p. 76). Penguin Group. Kindle Edition.

"One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn’t have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep." Zafon, Carlos Ruiz (2005-01-25). The Shadow of the Wind (p. 35). Penguin Group. Kindle Edition.

"An Ethos of Automony versus an Ethos of Dmoniance" All foreign engages come down to this, doesn't it? Can you honestly say that any of our recent military endeavors falls into the "Ethos of Automony" catagory? Certainly not those of whom we're supposedly aiding. Our enemies have proven the weakness of our approach to war, which causes the innocent more suffering.

I LOVE this book!

"The conclusion follows that the Persian King of Kings was driven by an ideology--a system of ideas, used for political purposes, and passed on to him by the legacy of his father--that conjoined claims to divine protection with displays of magnificence, demands for submission, and continuous expansion of his rule across the entire world." That is brilliant!

Read the first chapter and already I know this is going to be an excellent book.