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Hope to Die (Alex Cross, #22) Hope to Die by James Patterson
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“I still believed in my Lord and God and in the idea that He had a plan for us all.”
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“But grief and loss have a way of crippling the best intentions even in the strongest of minds.”
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“body in the morgue belonged to a member of my”
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“Don’t you move now, lover,” Sunday”
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“come”
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“That damned smart-phone is the stupidest gadget I've ever owned.”
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“after a torrential rain. Acadia and her”
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“Ruger in his waistband. Then he switched the .357 to his”
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“the price of admission. He didn’t think it could ever get better than that. But then she’d gotten”
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“most folks around here said, ‘Good riddance.”
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“They say our sense of smell is our most primal, the one that can hit us the hardest, because it comes from the deepest part of the brain.”
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“The detectives who stayed positive, who carried hope in their hearts, were the ones most likely to have stamina.”
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“But when the truck straightened out and began to gain speed, I was still holding on. I tapped the window with the Colt. The passenger was that same guy who’d given me the glowering look at the top of the pass into Hog Hollow.”
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“mind was only as good as the questions it was asked and the orders it was given.”
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“mother being taken from her deathbed, and”
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“already feel it. But I grabbed hold as tight as I could and then exploded into a blind, frenzied scramble of bare feet up the”
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“earthen berm that ran next to the nearest set of tracks.”
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“but your”
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“a steady, drenching stream. The pigs were going berserk in response, all trying to follow the rain”
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“In situations where the sane flee from danger, law enforcement officers sprint to engage it.”
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“You can’t bargain with God, Alex. You can state your good intentions, you can imagine the life you want, but you can’t negotiate with Him. He holds all the cards.”
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“brutal mass murder had taken place in that white house on the cul-de-sac before us. The Daley family of Omaha—Calvin, Bea, Ross, Sharon, and Janet—were found dead in their home two nights before Christmas.”
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“so there we were around four thirty that afternoon, driving past the Omaha Country Club into the bedroom community of Raven Oaks.”
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“to say good-bye. I wasn’t there to tell her how much I”
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“He punched in Acadia’s number. When it went to voice mail, he said,”
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“The driver said, “This is bullshit. We’re gonna get railroaded here. I want an attorney.” The passenger climbed out, spilling glass from the”
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“identity? Maybe the man who had my family”
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“every passing moment looking at the corpse, I became aware”
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“three”
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