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“So that was where we were in our relationship.Derwents scale ran all the way from wouldnt piss-on-you-if-you-were-on-fire to would-kill-for-you-no-need-to-ask-twice. I was quite glad to be somewher...”
“Marla poked Duncan. He stepped forward. "Maybe I can help."Atomic Jack looked at him., his eyes glowed a sickening shade of radioactive orange. "I really don't see how." He slipped off his glove an...”
“Saji has had things done to people who crossed him or whom he has perceived as crossing him. Ugly things. These guys we're meeting? They think they're tough. They run book, own strip clubs, dabble ...”
“Horror make me awake and when I don't think about it but I read it it make me sleepy!”
“In sum," Midlife said, giving the room his best you-the-jury baritone, "Our defense will be...?" He looked to Matt for the answer/"Blame the other guy," Matt said."Which other guy?""Yes.""Huh?""We ...”
“A few years back, they jacked David Copperfield in West Palm Beach, for Chrissake. Yes, it's funny: "Yo, empty your pockets," and he pulls out a bunny rabbit. But it's also depressing. If someone w...”
“There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing they are, the more picturesque, so to speak, but there are c...”
“There is no sin, no crime, no evil, God cannot forgive”
“It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.”
“Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.”
“Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear ...”
“We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs th...”
“His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.”
“In a place filled with fears, they were looking for the man who had none.”
“Human on human crimes should never be forgotten, or dismissed by time. We are all related here and are linked by spirit.”
“There is no code among men because there are no men anymore. Only monsters who sit behind their desks and give orders.”
“This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.”
“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
“The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.”
“Shouldn't it be atheists, believing they are not being watched, who commit virtually all the crimes and fill up all the prisons, while people who believe in an omnipresent god lead spotless lives o...”
