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The Devil (Jack Taylor, #8) The Devil by Ken Bruen
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“Hemingway had a handy dictum. You want to know if something is morally right? Listen to your stomach. If it sits like broken glass, then it’s morally wrong.”
Ken Bruen, The Devil
“I had me one sharp knife, a throwback to my glory days of the swans, and it’s sharp as a nun on her second sherry.”
Ken Bruen, The Devil
“Expect nothing, and by Christ, you’re entitled to even less.”
Ken Bruen, The Devil
“Nightmares are the dress rehearsal for the dread awaiting.”
Ken Bruen, The Devil
“Straley, Gary Phillips, Jim Nesbitt, Brian McGilloway, Adrian McKinty, Tony Black. Vinny said, ‘Nice list.”
Ken Bruen, The Devil
“You ever read Anton LaVey?”
Ken Bruen, The Devil
“Dennis Wheatley”
Ken Bruen, The Devil
“You’d test the patience of a saint.”
Ken Bruen, The Devil
“You can travel without moving.”
Ken Bruen, The Devil
“The guy tells me evil hones in on those closest to redemption.”
Ken Bruen, The Devil
“but the fact we knew less seemed to suit us better. Now we know everything and talk to nobody.”
Ken Bruen, The Devil
“Where have you been? We are the Missions.”
Ken Bruen, The Devil
“If God seems far away, who moved?”
Ken Bruen, The Devil
“Mind the darkness. Evil rarely appears that on the surface.”
Ken Bruen, The Devil
“Works for Paul Auster, so who am I to argue?”
Ken Bruen, The Devil
“Nietzsche wrote that ‘to shame a man is to kill him’.”
Ken Bruen, The Devil