“Joy—that’s the word. So easy to say, so hard to find in life sometimes.”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
“Victory belongs to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Soneji”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
“of life’s important connections and mysteries. I was hoping that maybe someday she would”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
“Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
“Death is nature’s way of saying “howdy.” Statues”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
“Victory belongs to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
“The Chinese had a saying that had been in her mind for a while, troubling her: Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
“A FLAT, still sandy, still meadowy region… a superb range of ocean beach—miles and miles of it. The bright sun, the sparkling waves, the foam, the view—a sail here and there in the distance. Walt Whitman had written that”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
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“As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love.”
― Norman Maclean, quote from Young Men and Fire
“So if you're really unhappy down there, and if all kinds of people are telling you that you're suffering from severe perceptual disorders, look for your own way of getting here, and when you find it, could you please bring some cards, 'cause we're getting pretty tired of the marbles. - from "Pipes”
― Etgar Keret, quote from The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories
“At Tulliallan Police College DI John Rebus based at St. Leonard’s police station in Edinburgh DI James “Jazz” McCullough based in Dundee DI Francis Gray based in Glasgow DS Stu Sutherland based in Livingston DI Thomas “Tam” Barclay based in Falkirk DC Allan Ward based in Dumfries DCI Archibald Tennant the Resurrection Men’s boss Andrea Thomson career analyst The Rico Lomax Murder Case Eric “Rico” Lomax murder victim Fenella Rico’s widow “Chib” Kelly Fenella’s current lover, Glasgow bar owner and criminal Richard “Dickie” Diamond Rico’s friend Malky Dickie’s nephew, barman in Edinburgh Jenny Bell Dickie’s onetime girlfriend Bernie Johns deceased Glasgow drug baron”
― Ian Rankin, quote from Resurrection Men
“I dedicate this book to the rock of hospitality and liberty, to that portion of old Norman ground inhabited by the noble nation of the sea, to the island of Guernsey, severe yet kind, my present asylum, my probable tomb.”
― Victor Hugo, quote from The Toilers of the Sea
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― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from An Acceptable Time
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