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I, Michael Bennett (Michael Bennett, #5) I, Michael Bennett by James Patterson
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“You string people along long enough, the string withers, then it breaks - Seamus”
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“You string people along enough, the string withers, then it breaks - Seamus”
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“Because frying bacon is how we stoic Irishmen say I love you.”
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“love New York City from the Battery to the Bronx, but”
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“Her eyes, they shone like diamonds I thought her the queen of the land And her hair, it hung over her shoulder Tied up with a black velvet band.”
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“dig”
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“at me,”
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“You string people along long enough, the string withers, then it breaks.”
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“Without a father, these kids have been abandoned to the street, and hence the situation here in Newburgh. Lord of the Flies with drugs and guns.”
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“You might as well leave your baby in his stroller on the corner and run away, because that’s basically what you’re doing. Without a”
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“People say it’s society’s fault, and they’re”
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“young man’s keister when he acts up. Where are the fathers here?”
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“It’s in the DNA of young male human beings to enjoy acting like hooligans,” he said. “Everyone knows that. Nothing will ever stop that.”
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“Ramon and his brother, Miguel, ran the Newburgh chapter of the Latin Kings, which meant they ran everything. The dope, the whores, the gambling.”
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“Standing there staring at them, it occurred to me how insane it is to be a parent. You go through this life, and it’s hard enough to keep yourself safe. When you have a kid, it’s like you take your heart and you just cross your fingers and hand it to each of your kids.”
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“Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, that crushing, ineffably sad classical piece from the movie Platoon.”
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“Angel Candelerio, the head of DF, Dominicans Forever, the city’s largest Dominican drug gang.”
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“was livid. I’m talking bed-bath-and-beyond pissed.”
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“Her lover was, of all things, a Turkish physics professor at Mount Saint Mary College, a diminutive, balding man in his fifties who sounded and even looked sort of like the Count from Sesame Street. Even now, McDonald sometimes closed his eyes to see the Muppet laughing at him. “I slept with your wife one, two, three, four times. Ah-ha-hah!”
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“hours.”
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