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Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?""Guns?" asked Jesper."Ships?" queried Inej. — Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
When something is dirty you wash it. That's what my mum always said.Yet...When you have dirty money and you launder it, — Anthony T. Hincks
Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're — Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The human brain has the unique ability to doubt the reality presented to itself. To comprehend the dissonance between id — Autumn Christian, The Crooked God Machine
The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our — Elisabeth Elliot
Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a b — it should make them love and protect each other against the man-world. But it was not so. It seemed like their great birth pains shrank their hearts and their souls. They stuck together for only one thing: to trample on some other woman... whether it was by throwing stones or by mean gossip. It was the only kind of loyalty they seemed to have. Men were different. They might hate each other but they stuck together against the world and against any woman who would ensnare one of them.
Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all rea — Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnatio — Thomas Brooks
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
His arms wrapped around my waist from behind and he kissed my neck again, closer to the wound this time. My pulse accele — Joann I. Martin Sowles, Laney
Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where was the ch — Kate Carlisle, Homicide in Hardcover
I had to say it gave me a warm feeling to picture Meredith Winslow spending twenty years or so in an ill fitting orange — Kate Carlisle, Homicide in Hardcover
He'd once explained that when he was a boy his very proper parents had forbidden him and his brothers to curse in the ho — Kate Carlisle, Homicide in Hardcover
Until a thing was seen, could it be said to exist? And if his eye through the telescope were the one that brought a cert — Kate Grenville
What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or wors — Terry Brooks, A Knight of the Word
As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a co — Lev Grossman, The Magicians
I had a blind date with a dentist — and he told me to come back in six months. — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
People say it is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made. — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math — if Johnny has ten fingers and they c — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking