If It Bleeds (Holly Gibney #2)
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A reader is a carrier, not a creator.
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I suppose men who understand business also understand that promises are easy to discard, being as how giving them is free.
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Films are ephemeral, while books—the good ones—are eternal, or close to it.
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When an old man dies, a library burns.
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“The human brain is finite—no more than a sponge of tissue inside a cage of bone—but the mind within the brain is infinite.
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“Just between you and me, you sing like old people fuck.”
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But fascination is fear’s twin brother,
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The universe is large, he thought. It contains multitudes. It also contains me, and in this moment I am wonderful. I have a right to be wonderful.
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This is our third billing, Holly writes. Please clear your account so we don’t have to turn this matter over to a collection agency.
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absconding debtor
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Lies are a slippery slope, each one usually leading to two more.
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compos mentis.