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181 " Questo posto toglie la speranza, e senza speranza che scopo hanno l'amore, la compassione, la gentilezza? Quali che fossero le intenzioni di chi l'ha progettata, Blackheath risveglia i mostri nascosti dentro di noi, e io non voglio assecondare i miei. "
― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
182 " Perhaps,” says Hardcastle, “but I’ve read my Dante, Philip. Not all hells are created equal. "
183 " Surely, there should be more? A chase, fear, warning of some sort. We shouldn’t simply die. It feels like a swindle. So much paid, too much asked. "
184 " Call it a healthy skepticism of any wisdom delivered through a mask. "
185 " If they were to creep closer, they might notice how crowded my eyes are, how all my previous hosts are jostling for a better view. In some way or another, the footman’s harmed every one of them, and they’ve all turned up for his execution. I can barely think through their clamor. "
186 " Far as I’ve seen, there’s more warmth in a long winter than in that woman. "
187 " Freed from the house with a slaughter to enjoy, they seem almost human. "
188 " Znate li po čemu se zna da li je čudovište sposobno da ponovo hoda zemljom, gospodine Bišope?" pita me zamišljeno. "Kako znate da li se zaista iskupilo i da ne govori samo ono što želite da čujete?" Poteže još jedan gutljaj iz čuturice. "Date mu dan bez posledica i gledate šta će uraditi s njim. "
189 " Give a little boy an electric train set and he’ll immediately try to derail it,” he says. "
190 " The porcelain’s cold, clammy against my skin, but aside from that it’s a good fit. "
191 " Anger makes good men stubborn and stubborn men petty. "
― Stuart Turton , The Devil and the Dark Water
192 " Blackheath’s picked him up and dusted him off, winding his key so he can do it all again. If this isn’t hell, the devil is surely taking notes. "
193 " But who’s to say there aren’t hundreds of others like yourself seeking justice for those souls?” “Are there?” “Doubtful, but it’s a lovely thought, isn’t it? "
194 " His words fell on Sara like the first touch of sun hitting a plant after a long winter. "
195 " The whole thing’s positively American. "
196 " It’s as though I fell asleep on a beach and now find myself cast out to sea. "
197 " . . . maids scrubbing their youth away on the floor. "
198 " A face is a mask of another sort. "
199 " I’m saying every man is in a cage of his own making, "
200 " If that’s the case, what does that make me? Or them? Are we shards of the same soul, responsible for each other’s sins, or entirely different people, pale copies of some long-forgotten original? "