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1 " life, and "
― Patricia Cornwell , Black Notice (Kay Scarpetta, #10)
2 " And let me tell you another thing,” Marino threw back at "
3 " I’ve known cops, agents like that,” he said. “They always have justifiable reasons for judicial homicide, but if you look hard at it, you begin to get the drift that they subconsciously set things up to go bad. They thrive on it. "
4 " i stay away from red meat as much as possible." bray switched conversational lanes. "but their fish is very good.""that’s like going to a whorehouse and playing solitaire," marino remarked. "
5 " sabotage takes too much time. "
6 " More to the point, odors are important. They have their own story to tell. A sweet smell might point at ethchlorvynol, while chloral hydrate smells like pears. Both might make me wonder about an overdose of hypnotics, while a hint of garlic might point at arsenic. Phenols and nitrobenzene bring to mind ether and shoe polish respectively, and ethylene glycol smells exactly like antifreeze because that’s exactly what it is. Isolating potentially significant smells from the awful stench of dirty bodies and rotting flesh is rather much like archaeology. You focus on what you are there to find and not on the miserable conditions around it. "
7 " We're special. We're alone and we rarely think it's because we're special. We just think there's something wrong with us. "
8 " Grief held on. It would not let go of loss, because to do that was to accept it. I told that to grieving families and friends all the time. "
9 " Phisoderm, not an inch spared, not the inside of my ears and nose, "
