Kindle Notes & Highlights
after all, what does one’s figure matter when one is the wrong side of fifty?
Mr Edison, he felt, hadn’t been an unmixed blessing to mankind.
picked up a Finnish trade delegation on its way to Washington.
The divine light of ratiocination appeared in Hansom’s eye.
‘Of course, our sadistic spying relates to two sadistic civilian murders . . .’
He filled up the kettle and brewed a pot of the stimulant in question.
There was a track of sorts, or at all events a line of least resistance.
‘We don’t play God at our level . . . it’s higher up you meet the divinities.’
nobody’s quite sane when they come to do a murder.
‘God’s gift to corruption with a loud voice – America!
We may not need to be divine to understand the workings of divinity.’
‘One learns to forgive selfishness in politics, and dishonesty, and passion; but inhumanity one cannot forgive, or forget, or silently condone.’
