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1 " I glanced round to find myself staring into turquoise eyes. "
― Sharon J. Bolton , Now You See Me (Lacey Flint, #1)
2 " I’m not sending them in to do therapy, "
3 " OFFICIAL ESTIMATES SAY THAT BETWEEN 1,000 AND 1,500 people sleep rough on the streets of London on any given night. Many of them are young runaways, fleeing abuse of various kinds at home. Some are elderly, people at the end of their lives who have lost everything. Quite a few have mental-health problems, made worse by the impossibility of getting their required medication. All are vulnerable; always cold, always hungry, slowly getting more weak and more scared. "
4 " It gets to you, life on the streets, even when you know that for the moment at least you have somewhere else to go. It’s like you know it’s waiting, always there, for the time when the reins slip between your fingers. Still, "
5 " The world’s gone fucking nuts, "
6 " The room was modern, but there was something about the arrangement of so much gleaming steel, the careful placement on the counters of jars and dishes, that looked timeless. "
7 " Karen Curtis had never thought she would die to the sound of Julie Andrews. "
8 " Of course, 85 per cent won’t be enough by itself to convict him, but it makes him someone you want to take seriously. "
9 " white-suited figures were making their way around the site like phantoms. The scene-of-crime officers had arrived. They would establish an inner cordon around the body and an outer one around the crime scene. "
