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“Angela—Angel—means ‘messenger from God,’
do it without thinking. Thinking slows you down.
murderers were often quite unremarkable looking.
I imagine the human mind doesn’t think clearly in that last moment when it knows it is about to die.”
Better to break the law than to be murdered.
“It doesn’t matter what you say. It only matters what the jury believes.”
every form of authority, from the school system to the justice system, was far more concerned about protecting itself than the innocent.
Sometimes, even when you know it’s not fair, you gotta do what’s right for you.
I’m strongly in favor of women knowing how to protect themselves.
“Are you planning on changing your clothes before someone tries to kill you?”
“If someone comes at me to kill me, then they are going to get what they deserve.
“Your objective is to disorient, disable, destroy. That requires intent, aggression, momentum.”
“Perception is reality,”
Children are not named because the parents like the sound of a name. Names are given because they are meant to impart a certain nature upon a person. Bravery, health, strength, tenderness, beauty. Babies are expected to grow into their name.”
“A few old texts sometimes describe ‘Cassiel’ as the angel of tears. He is sometimes regarded as the ruler of the moon.”
‘Aykhan’ means ‘king of the moon.’
Some people didn’t want to face the truth of what would be coming for them.
“It’s been getting worse. American intelligence agencies have gradually become more dedicated to a political agenda than a security agenda. They increasingly view spying on Americans citizens and politicians—including members of Congress and the Senate—as their mandate and a legitimate objective.”
“The laws you represent are as corrupt as you are.”
It was a dive, but a dive with an oddly homey appeal.
A nuke going off anywhere in the US is a catastrophe.
She might not look it, but this was a woman you messed with at your own peril.
These men didn’t care about the truth. They only cared about getting a confession out of her so they could play the hero and advance their own stock within their agency.
“It’s a lonely kind of insanity.”
What they would not be expecting, was … Angela.
He was a little surprised at how tactically levelheaded she was.
When you hunted killers, killers hunted back.
He wished more of the people he found had Angela’s sense of self-preservation.
It had only lasted seconds. It had lasted forever.
they don’t put political correctness ahead of stopping terrorists.
“He asked me to shoot him,” Angela said. “So I did. Just not where he wanted me to shoot him.
she was a stone-cold killer of killers.
The United States had just been saved by a serial killer.
“That’s who you are. You’re the girl in the moon. Cold. Distant. Hauntingly beautiful. Untouchable. That’s you—the girl in the moon—that’s who you are. “You rise above us all, silently looking down on us, watching us, seeing what we can’t see.
