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41 " politicians had long known, people preferred short, catchy answers to complex ones, even if the short answers were oversimplified to the point of ridiculousness. Phrases "
― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)
42 " Ethan was partaking in that greatest of white-collar lies, “working from home,” and not feeling at all bad about it. "
43 " A relationship like a short circuit, their mutual frailties feeding each other. "
44 " down too much beef jerky. What he’d really been "
45 " one to see a trucker "
46 " As politicians had long known, people preferred short, catchy answers to complex ones, even if the short answers were oversimplified to the point of ridiculousness. Phrases "
47 " It’s the great equalizer: black or white, male or female, norm or abnorm, the first thing most people do in the morning—before they even brush their teeth—is reach for their d-pad. "
48 " When sirens lit up the darkness behind him, he jumped, then cursed. Must’ve zoned out, gotten heavy on the pedal—only no, the speedometer read sixty-seven. He’d been tired, but not so whacked that he’d drifted out of his lane. A broken taillight? It was after four in the morning; maybe the cops were just bored. Kevin "
49 " The scientist in him imagined the scientist in her; he sometimes pictured Violet as a tiny being in the cockpit of a vehicle she didn’t understand. Row upon row of dials and switches and knobs, and no instruction manual. Nothing to do but stab and twist at random and see what happened. Punch that button, this appendage flaps. Interesting. "
50 " Ethan was partaking in that greatest of white-collar lies, “working from home,” and not feeling at all bad about it. He "
51 " Protecting America is not a job for the squeamish. "
52 " To bear your weaponry so blatantly before you, to move through the world as a nightmare. The spider regarded him, and he regarded the spider. "
53 " intentions and results. Cooper’s intentions in killing Peters and releasing the video had been good; the results had been a disaster. Did that make his intentions wrong? If so, that meant morality was really only a way of talking about how we wished things were. Hope, empathy, idealism—maybe they didn’t matter. Maybe the only "
54 " We couldn’t arrest him if he was shooting strangers with one hand while jerking off into the American flag with the other. "
55 " Jack’s house was crayon art and blaring cartoons and the smell of casserole. Ethan "
56 " Everything had a sweetness these days, a golden glow like he was watching his own life in some sun-faded movie print. "
57 " Revolution? You’re an idiot. You don’t even know what that word means. Forget your precious Mao and Che and Fidel. If they’ve appeared on a T-shirt, they haven’t changed shit. You want revolution, look at Alexander Fleming. Penicillin transformed the world in ways Lenin and Washington only dreamt of. "
58 " had that stale feel, too much coffee washing down too much beef jerky. What he’d really been craving was a double cheeseburger, but while it would surprise no one to see a trucker gone flabby around the middle, it was a point of pride that at thirty-nine he "
59 " obfuscate or "
60 " they had an unselfconscious comfort that normally required long intimacy. Maybe it was because he’d been thinking about her all month, waiting for her to appear, and the anticipation had been akin to actually being together. "