“Always wrong but never in doubt.”
“humans can build as easily as destroy,”
“Everything depends which side of the shotgun you’re on,”
“Tarik reappeared from room 104 carrying a soft-sided blue travel bag, large enough to hold a week’s worth of clothes, small enough to fit in an airplane’s overhead bin.”
“God is on the side with the best artillery. NAPOLEON”
“Dixie cup” was agency jargon for someone disposable, someone who could be arrested or killed without consequence.”
“Evelyn belted out the song, her voice sliding across the notes like a car on an icy road.”
“the reason he had known about Islam long before he studied the religion at Dartmouth. He was one-quarter Muslim by birth. Noor had”
“I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)”
“...when girls use the brightness of their eyes or the softness of their skin, they have an uncommon advantage in getting what they want.”
“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.”
“for there is no cure for love save love itself. That is the verdict of all the wise doctors who have ever practiced since the earliest times.”
“But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.”
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