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The tree with the broken branch could be crucial. We have no idea what happened, let alone what’s important and what isn’t. Leaving it out as an oversight is sloppiness. Leaving it out to spite me is incompetence.
“I’d rather seduce a cobra.”
“Blackwood, what may seem like polite and appropriate behavior to you may come off differently to others.”
Always tell the truth. When in doubt, you can say you don’t recall. If you’re afraid you might incriminate yourself, shut up. If you didn’t do something wrong, be honest. Even if it makes you look bad. If you want to nail someone to the wall and the evidence is lacking, you use the investigation process to trap them in a lie.
“A SIN IS like a scratch on your soul,” proclaims Reverend Groom.
wounded soul is an invitation. An opportunity for infection. That sin calls out to evil, and sometimes the evil answers. When we let the evil in, it makes us commit more sin. Sometimes evil takes over. It’s too late then. There’s nothing left to do.”
your house cat may be infecting you with a virus that makes you hoard
things, including more cats.
information about Groom’s murder.” Breyer leans back in his chair and puts a hand to his brow. “Have you always been a magnet for trouble?” “I prefer to think I’m just good at finding it.” He shakes his head. “Too good. Let me tell you what’s been going on in my world. Besides this attempted bombing mess that we can’t sort out just yet, whether it was some unknown Filipino terrorist group or X-20, I’ve been getting the State Department yelling in my ear.
But it’s not a choice I’m capable of making. If I get pushed, my instincts are to push back—twice as hard.
“Too late. You stick your nose in too many places, you’re going to get stung.” He waits a moment before dismissing me. “You play by your own set of rules, Blackwood. You’re clever, I’ll give you that. But right or wrong, I don’t forget how you play things. One day you’re going to find yourself in a gray area and the people you’ve walked over on the way might not see it the same way.”
“It started by turning a sheriff into a homicidal maniac and blowing up a church using human fat. I have no idea how this is going to end.”
