Quotes from Dead Simple

“Branson ate his salad, and left the rest of his fish untouched, while Grace tucked into his steak and kidney pudding with relish. 'I read a while ago,' he told Branson, 'that the French drink more red wine than the English but live longer. The Japanese eat more fish than the English but drink less wine and live longer. The Germans eat more red meat than the English, and drink more beer and they live longer too. You know the moral of this story?
'No'
'It's not what you eat or drink - it's speaking English that kills you.”
― Peter James, quote from Dead Simple

“banks, Cyber Scan fast scan and search – including all mobile frequencies. Scanning and search speed is 45 channels or increments”
― Peter James, quote from Dead Simple

“the more I practice, the luckier I get.”
― Peter James, quote from Dead Simple

“Good sex is one-percent of the relationship. bad sex is 99%.”
― Peter James, quote from Dead Simple

“We don’t rise to the level of our abilities, we fall to the level of our excuses.”
― Peter James, quote from Dead Simple

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“Moments later, the cowbells clattered, and Rachel Anderson, the creative-writing teacher from the community college, walked in. Rachel, wearing a floor-skimming lavender skirt, her long, blond hair pulled into a neat French braid, scanned the diner. Settling her sunglasses on the top of her head, she went to the counter and politely addressed the group.”
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“I wouldn’t stop until I figured the damn thing out–it would take me fifteen or twenty minutes. But during the day, other guys would come to me with the same problem, and I’d do it for them in a flash. So for one guy, to do it took me twenty minutes, while there were five guys who thought I was a super-genius.”
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― L.E. Modesitt Jr., quote from The Parafaith War

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