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1 " All beauty, according to Lady Katchatka, had its origins in pain. "
― Jon Courtenay Grimwood , End of the World Blues
2 " Unfortunately, since there was only one of him, most of his riches were wasted. "
― Jon Courtenay Grimwood , Effendi
3 " We die every day," Kit said. "It's called being human. "
4 " It followed that every act, whether the finding of a new proof for a complex mathematical problem or a twist of vision that turned one school of art into another was a result of endless failure. "
5 " No one owns you, I know that. No one owns me. No one owns anyone. We just get to borrow each for a while. "
6 " He was just one of those people ... one of a thousand expats who'd dragged their unhappiness to the other side of the world, expecting everything to be different, and never quite got over the fact it felt the same. "
7 " Seems to be catching.""What is?" asked Neku."Wanting Kit dead."Neku shrugged. "He was fucking the wife of a gang boss and bikers used his bar to deal drugs, plus lots of uyoku felt Yoshi Tanaka should be married to someone Japanese. Then there's chippu he owed to the local police and unpaid bills from a Brazilian transvestite who mends his motorcycle. It could have been anyone. "
8 " She was herself, the original. Everyone else was just a copy. "
9 " the answer was no, whatever her query was, except for those bits to which his answer was yes "
10 " There were old firemasters and bad firemasters; there were no old bad firemasters "
― Jon Courtenay Grimwood , The Fallen Blade (The Assassini, #1)
11 " that opening position in every negotiation. The one that said, out of the goodness of my heart I'm going to agree to rob you blind. "
12 " Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics. "
13 " There was something intrinsically sad about Shinjuku. A vacuum-packed hollowness that no quantity of neon could hide. Roppongi was the same, only there the sadness was older and more Western. All that movement to so little purpose. A million strangers searching for a cure to the darkness behind their eyes in the void between someone else's legs. "
14 " No one could tie you tighter than you could tie yourself and it was the ropes you couldn't see that bound you tightest. "
