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“In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.”
“Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.”
“Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands.”
“There's more to good or bad than what's written in the Rulebook.”
“You want me to spy on a National Colour operative?''Wow,' she said, 'you got it. I thought I was going to have to explain that one for a lot longer.”
“Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.”
“Curiosity is a descending stairthat leads to only who-knows-where.”
“The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidin...”
“Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct ans...”
“the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.”
“Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.”
“A surfeit of information often hides an untruth, he said, with annoying clarity.”
