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"Life is not a battle. It is always the mind which battles."

'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.'

"...maybe sometimes things didn't just go wrong and then stop; maybe sometimes they just keep going wronger and wronger until everything was totally fucked up."

"...politics always change, stories never do."

"It takes human ingenuity indeed to know how smart an animal is."

"...what we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”

"The world is a sewer and we're all dodging shit." Quite true for cops.

"Every technology which is of benefit to the human race must be used appropriately and with respect. In no instance is this more true than in the case of the tractor."

"But what if the human spirit is noble and generous-and creative, empathic, imaginative, spiritual-all those things we try to be-and sometimes it’s just not strong enough to withstand all the meanness and selfishness in the world?"

"Ah, love! What thing is love! No one can understand. On this point, science must concede to poetry!"

"How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?"

"It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all."

"And then she realized that Park didn't know about the Beatles." Surprisingly I am loving it!

"As a resident, my highest ideal was not saving lives—everyone dies eventually—but guiding a patient or family to an understanding of death or illness."

"While he believed in his own predestination, he was invulnerable, although people who accompanied him perished one after the other."

"Death isn't frightening by itself. What's frightening is expecting it."

"You don't really think that the world is organized into things you can see and hear? Take a mole, for example. It doesn't see. It's blind from birth. But that doesn't mean that all the things that the mole doesn't see don't actually exist. That's what you're saying..."

"Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing."

Another blind date! Let's see what it has in store for me.

"The fights are nastiest when the stakes are smallest."

It seems like an eternity since I haven't read Grisham's work.

"War clearly blurred the distinction between logic and superstition."

'Saukerl,' she laughed, and as she held up her hand, she knew completely that he was simultaneously calling her a Saumensch. I think that's as close to love as eleven-year-olds can get.

"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you - A boy who loves you."

This novel is mindblowing.

This is childish... I did not know while purchasing at a second hand bookstore. I am not going to read ahead.

"Fast bowlers are surely the oysters of the cricket world when it comes to bat selection. They pick up any old thing that's floating by and try to turn it into a pearl."

"The pain of discipline is not as bad as the pain of disappointment. "

"That's a consequence of perfection in this world - the opposing wrath of imperfection."

"The sense of someone missing is stronger than the sense of someone there."

"Hypocrisy like anything else was an essential ingredient of the Indian spicy tray!"