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“Intonation,” Harry said. “You never completely get rid of intonation.”
Work long enough and you see the tiny nuances each murder has, the details that distinguish one from another and make each one unique.
“All my life I’ve been surrounded by people who love me. I’ve been given everything I asked for. In short, I have no explanation for why I’ve turned out as I have.”
There is a pattern. There’s always a pattern. Not because you plan it, but because all humans are creatures of habit, there’s no difference between you and me and the rapist. It’s just a question of finding what this particular creature’s habits are.”
If you sit in an office it isn’t long before you lose your perspective and control. And control is everything in this game, you know.
People are like dogs, you know. A dog you don’t have under control is an unhappy dog. And unhappy dogs bite, you know.”
“Intuition is just the sum of all your experience. The way I see it, everything you’ve experienced, everything you know, you think you know and didn’t know you knew is there in your subconscious lying dormant, as it were. As a rule you don’t notice the
“I think people feel a kind of need for punishment when they can no longer accept their own actions.
“Just imagine walking away from something you’ve started. Something you really believed would be good. I don’t think I could ever do that.”
“People are afraid of what they don’t understand. And hate what they’re afraid of.”
“The truth is that no one lives off the truth and that’s why no one cares about the truth. The truth we make for ourselves is just the sum of what is in someone’s interest, balanced by the power they hold.”
