The Outsider (Holly Gibney #1)
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Thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show. Colin Wilson “The Country of the Blind”
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Strange, the things you noticed when your day—your life—suddenly went over a cliff you hadn’t even known was there.
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Sometimes the tracks just stop, and we have to live with that.”
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The professor said people had the mistaken idea that Poe wrote fantastic stories about the supernatural, when in fact he wrote realistic stories about abnormal psychology.”
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‘Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.’ ”
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believe there’s another dozen thoughts lined up behind each one I’m aware of. If
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only an idiot goes out in a boat when he doesn’t know how to swim.
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authentic no-shit situation. Is your interest piqued?”
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“He’s not in hell,” Holly said. The woman recoiled as if she had been slapped. “He brings hell.”
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overconfidence breeds carelessness.
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“Bullshit is every good lawyer’s stock in trade.