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“you should never postpone your pleasures, that there was no guarantee that you would live another day.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“the SS had made the two initials of its name, and the twin-lightning symbol of its standard, synonymous with inhumanity in a way that no other organisation before or since has been able to do.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

“It is always tempting to wonder what would have happened if … or if not. Usually it is a futile exercise, for what might have been is the greatest of all the mysteries.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

“one can forgive even what they did. But one can never forget.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

“There are some men whose crimes surpass comprehension and therefore forgiveness, and here is the real failure. For they are still among us,”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

“I have spent twenty years trying to understand the look in her eyes. Was it love or hatred, contempt or pity, bewilderment or understanding? I shall never know.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

“there was no such thing as collective guilt. But we Germans have been told for twenty years that we are all guilty. Do you believe that?”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

“The specific murderers of the SS therefore hide even today behind the collective guilt theory.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

“But the words did not come. They never do, when one needs them.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

“But I couldn’t see how being unconscious for any amount of time constituted “good news”. Unless the bad news was really bad.”
― Thomas Wymark, Inheritance

“If I didn’t mark off the years anymore, did away with birthdays and anniversaries, perhaps I could pause time. I wouldn’t age in the conventional sense. I would just be living my life. My one life.”
― Thomas Wymark, Inheritance

“Certain words carry with them the full weight of their meaning for all to understand. Cancer; murder; rape; death; insanity.”
― Thomas Wymark, Inheritance

“Their parents were always going to be parents no matter how old the children got.”
― Thomas Wymark, Inheritance

“If I could just find out about my history, that would be the only way I would know for sure what my future might hold. Look back to reveal the future.”
― Thomas Wymark, Inheritance

“Boiling anger burns. Sticks to people like hot melted sugar. Scars and blisters.”
― Thomas Wymark, Inheritance

“There was something so different about childhood. Something wonderful and magical that just went from me as I got older. Why couldn’t I hold onto it?”
― Thomas Wymark, Inheritance

“We could act in childish ways, we could revisit childhood places. But we never got back the childhood itself.”
― Thomas Wymark, Inheritance

“Failure to do anything would indeed be failure.”
― Thomas Wymark, Inheritance

“There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“one minute I’m ticking along fine and life is sweet and I want for nothing, and the next, I can’t wait to get away, I’m all over the place, slipping and sliding again.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I can’t do this, I can’t just be a wife.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts. Who was it said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“the sense of shame I feel about an incident is proportionate not just to the gravity of the situation, but also to the number of people who have witnessed it.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I am no longer just a girl on the train, going back and forth without point or purpose.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“know what it is to love someone and to say the most terrible things to them, in anger or anguish.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“If you did not want much, there was plenty.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman