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“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

“The only thing scarier than leaving a small town is never leaving it at all.”
― Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven

“Let us be practical in our expectations of the Criminal Law.… [For] we have merely to imagine, by some trick of time travel, meeting our earliest hominid ancestor, Adam, a proto-man, short of stature, luxuriantly furred, newly bipedal, foraging about on the African savannah three million or so years ago. Now, let us agree that we may pronounce whatever laws we like for this clever little creature, still it would be unwise to pet him.”
― Reynard Thompson, A General Theory of Human Violence

“It is better to give than to receive." —Liars”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“If a wife lost a husband, there was a whole new word to describe who she was: she was now a widow. A husband became a widower. But if a parent loses a child, there was no special label for their grief. They were still just a mother or a father, even if they no longer had a son or daughter.”
― M. L. Stedman

“It isn't your job to save the world. Even if you do, it'll just go and get itself into danger again, and again, and again. It's the nature of things.”
― G. Norman Lippert, James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“One man in a thousand can see the moons of Jupiter. Because the other nine hundred and ninety-nine can't see them there's no reason to doubt that the moons of Jupiter exist, and certainly no reason for calling the thousandth man a lunatic.”
― Agatha Christie

“It's quite possible that the delusions of today may be the proved scientific facts of tomorrow.”
― Agatha Christie

“You say your life is your own, but can you ignore the chance that you are taking part in a gigantic drama under the orders of a divine producer? Your cue may not come till the end of the play--it may be totally uninportant, a mere walking on part, but on it may hang the issues of the play, if you do not give the cue to another player. The whole edifice may crumple. You as you, may not matter to anyone in the world, but you as a person in a particular place may matter unimaginably.”
― Agatha Christie

“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.”
― Mark Twain

“The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.”
― Sydney J. Harris

“Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, "What do you mean by seizing the whole earth; because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while you who does it with a great fleet are styled emperor".”
― St Augustine

“Of course Jem antagonized me sometimes until I could kill him, but when it came down to it he was all I had.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“What's a handshake, after all, except a socially acceptable way to make sure the other guy doesn't have a knife behind his back.”
― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

“But money, like gravity, is a force that clumps, drawing in more and more of itself, eventually creating the black hole that we know as wealth. This is not simply the fault of humans. Ask any dollar bill and it will tell you it prefers the company of hundreds to the company of ones. Better to be a sawbuck in a billionaire’s account than a dirty single in the torn pocket of an addict.”
― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

“In the West, the past is very close. In many places, it still believes it’s the present.”
― John Masters, Pilgrim son: A personal odyssey

“As with real estate, what matters with bullet holes is location, location, location.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“I'd written my name on the blackboard, and under my name I wrote the name of the course for the would-be Sherlock Holmeses who needed more than the instructor's name and room number to be certain they were in the right place.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy, until you can find a rock.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“Death exists, not as the opposite but as part of life.”
― Haruki Murakami

“I am not unused to being confronted with my ow lies, but those of others never fail to throw me for a loop.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“What if you had never seen the sea before? What if the only thing you'd ever seen was a child's picture - blue crayon, choppy waves? Would you know the real sea if you only knew the picture? Would you be able to recognize the real thing even if you saw it?”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“If enough eyes experienced the same hallucination, it turned into a truth.”
― Elif Shafak

“A man doesn't know a friend until he knows his friend's anger.”
― Zoë Ferraris, Finding Nouf

“Where does American money come from? Steel. Railways. You know how it is over there. It doesn't matter if you murder or rob to get it. The trick is in keeping it for a hundred years, and then you're aristocrats.”
― Donna Leon

“[On Corpses] Many cases begin with one - this can be disconcerting, but at least you know where you sand. Worse is he corpse that appears partway into your investigation, complicating everything. Best to proceed, therefore, with the vigilance of one who assumes that a corpse is always around the next corner. That way it is less likely to be your own.”
― Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

“The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.”
― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot

“To my family and friends who live in terror of being cast as a villain in one of my books. It's a valid fear. Be nice to me.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Mother-in-Law