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“The scraps of information she’d gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine in one of the arcades on the front. Secrets drew her in every time – the unsaid.”
“No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.”
“At night in the town's countryside, you could just about feel and hear everything, but without using lamps, it was impossible to see anything other than shadows”
“Emotional speculation is to deductive reasoning what weeds are to a garden – at first sight they appear to belong, but eventually they obscure that which one hopes will come into bud.”
“You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.”
“All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society’s institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions.”
“If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.”
“A risk to own anything: a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around, not enough cars, shoes, cigarettes. Too many people, too few things. What there is must go into circ...”
“It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn’t be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.”
“The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.”
“A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.”
“Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things.”
“Sorrow and profound fatigue are at the heart of Dewey's silence. It had been his ambition to learn "exactly what happened in that house that night." Twice now he'd been told, and the two versions w...”
“After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.”
“...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientifi...”
“But he had been the victim of the world’s most common crime—his youth had been kidnapped by a thing called time. It had likely also been raped, dismembered, and buried somewhere never to be seen again”
“His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.”
“Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.”
“Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.”
“He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him.What?' Ronald said.I didn't say anything.'You're breathing heavy.”
