“There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.”
“What were you going to do with it?” McCain asked.
"I just thought it might come in useful.”
"Were you planning to attack me?”
"No. But that’s a good idea.”
“The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.”
“You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.”
“He died fighting for what he believed in.”
“Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?”
"Because they’re talented.”
“When you are rich, people treat you with respect.”
“The food at the Mandarin Club was not good, but the members liked it that way. It reminded them of school.”
“There’s a name for people with an interest in the moon,” Alex said. “They’re called lunatics.”
“And so in Moscow they began a systematic search, block by block. Someone had to be arrested everywhere. The slogan was: "We are going to bang our fist on the table so hard that the world will shake with terror!" It was to the Lubyanka, to the Butyrki, that the Black Marias, the passenger cars, the enclosed trucks, the open hansom cabs kept moving, even by day. There was a jam at the gates, a jam in the courtyard. They didn't have time to unload and register those they'd arrested. (And the same situation existed”
“When both men had their shirt off, as they did right now, it was like living in an Abercrombie & Fitch ad- a six-pack celebration, complete with triceps and biceps galore.
No doubt about it, Dolphina loved her new job.”
“Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.”
“The noise. The chaos. Had it always been this bad? Cars honking, sirens blaring, the shriek of bus brakes, and the smell of diesel when the huge vehicle pulled away from the curb? Construction, wood-planked walkways, jackhammers. How did people stand it? How did they think? Function? The”
“For Robert the experience was another step in education. He was learning in particular that patriotic declarations did not make due process of law superfluous and that he owed a debt to his own inner standards.”
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