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So tightly wrought it nearly suffocates, this suspense mystery does an excellent job of not only showing the reader what it means to be accused, but how it feels--the unfairness of the instant judgment (guilty before a court date), the pariah stat...
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I stopped reading the legal/crime thrillers many years ago...too predictable. I'm not sure what prompted me to pick this one up. Maybe it was because the main character's fourteen year old son was accused of murdering a classmate, and having an al...
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“Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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