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When I first started working with Hari, I’d felt like a lion tamer working with new cats. If I showed no fear, did nothing to trigger those predatory reflexes, I’d be safe.

Listen, there’s no such thing as cheating when you’re fighting for your life. A very bright guy once said, ‘Winning’s not the most important thing. It’s the only thing.’

and I remember the case of a minister who was forced to leave his home because he was tormented, day after day, by a poltergeist who hurled at his head hymn books stolen from a rival church. 😂

High on top was a conical wooden roof, topped by a wooden spire. It must have been laughable in any other house, but here in Hill House it belonged, gleeful and expectant, awaiting perhaps a slight creature creeping out from the little window onto the slanted roof, reaching up to the spire, knotting a rope...

No Human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice.

Without ever wanting to become reserved and shy, she had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words.

"For I tell you, Chase, the game is very much afoot."

Another instance of Jones being a huge Sherlock fan!

It was a strange meal, two foreigners in a Swiss restaurant, neither of them eating a thing.

Robert Pinkerton used to say that a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

‘Everything has a relevance,’ remarked Holmes. ‘I have often found that the most immaterial aspect of a case can be at the same time its most significant.’

"London was in the grip of a merciless winter, the streets so cold that the very gas lamps seemed frozen solid and what little light they gave out subsumed by the endless fog. Outside, people drifted along the pavements like ghosts, with their heads bowed and their faces covered, while the growlers rattled past, their horses anxious to be home."

Wow! That 1890 atmosphere!

Any man is easier to control when you can lead him by his dick.😂

Like the saying goes, opportunity is a nettle—grasp it boldly, or get stung.

My father would say: freedom that can be taken away was never real in the first place, and maybe he’s right. Maybe that freedom was always only a figment of my imagination—but it was an illusion I cherished. 

Shattering an illusion is the insult we never forgive.

You’ve already beaten the worst enemy you’ll ever have—that voice in your head . . . It tells you the fight’s already over . . . whispers there’s nothing you can do . . . If you beat that voice, it’s a victory that can’t be taken from you. You might die, but you’ll die fighting.

There is purity in violence, in the desperate struggle to pull life from death, that surpasses any philosopher’s sere quest for truth.

“Killing’s simpler,” Caine said, with a thin laugh that tried to sound hearty. “You do it, it’s done, it’s over. A lie is like a pet—you have to take care of it, or it’ll turn on you and bite you on the ass.”

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

Caine, too, had a quality of relaxation, but there was nothing loose about it; instead it was stillness, a meditative readiness that seemed to flow out from him and fill the room with capacity for action, as though all around him ghosts of imaginary Caines performed every movement that was possible within the space: every attack, every defense, every leap or flip or roll. ⚔️

Hari despised him with the sort of personal loathing most people reserve for cockroaches in their breakfast cereal.

For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism— either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. This last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.

It was a simple piece of foolery but it had bothered Doc ever since. He wondered what a beer milk shake would taste like. The idea gagged him but he couldn’t let it alone. It cropped up every time he had a glass of beer. 🍺

Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.

Some people accept that they will never be free of their anxiety, they just learn to carry it.

Do you know what the worst thing about being a parent is? That you're judged by your worst moments.

For a hundred years they have operated like this. Players cannot have any power. Players cannot be treated reasonably. A stand was made, led by Kim Hughes. And Kim Hughes, quite rapidly, was no longer captain of Australia.

Kim went with an open mind, a spirit of adventure and the two qualities that helped wherever he went: a desire to be liked and a determination to see good in people.

But hey, that was Kim the man. Take that away and you take a lot of his batting force away. He had this attitude that some bowlers couldn’t bowl and no matter what they threw up he was going to dispatch it. That’s probably what alienated him at the start against some senior figures. People objected to the brashness they saw—that brashness as a person which manifested itself in his batting.

Thing is, when stupid ideas work, they become genius ideas.