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1 " his eyes sarcastically. “Actually, my "
― James Patterson , Burn (Michael Bennett, #7)
2 " Across from the famous jewelry store on Fifth Avenue at Fifty-Seventh Street, we sat in the back of a graffiti-covered white box truck watching the world go by on the surveillance vehicle’s hidden high-def camera. So far there had been no sign of the thieves. Or even Audrey Hepburn. "
3 " there, but it was some half-assed firework or "
4 " the September wind wafting the few trees West End still had lining the block to the south. I guess absence really does make the heart grow fonder, "
5 " The haughtiness suddenly fell from Hamster’s face. He looked at us fearfully for a long second. "
6 " They cut her and cooked her and ate her up. "
7 " Tara McLellan, who these men have been convicted of killing, was a colleague of mine and a very close family friend. "
8 " and Amora, but this time poolside with Amora’s "
9 " It’s OK,” I said to them. “It’s all right. I was actually dumb enough to want to be a cop. "
10 " worked in New York my whole life—actually lived only about twenty blocks away—and had never even heard of this place, or the Freedom Tunnel, for that matter. This city never failed to surprise. Hamster got out of the car, his big eyes blinking through the tangled gray mop of his hair as he looked around. We listened to the cooing of pigeons nesting in the crevices of the raised roadbed above as we waited. "
11 " Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither and will lose both’? "