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1 " The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals—humanised animals—triumphs of vivisection. "
― Jeffery Deaver , The Skin Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #11)
2 " The pain, you know. It’s one hell of a way to die. "
3 " eager’ and ‘anxious’ aren’t the same, or how ‘disinterested’ doesn’t mean ‘uninterested. "
4 " Always thinking. This was one of the reasons he loved her. "
5 " I’m really not the cold fish everyone thinks I am. "
6 " The history of domestic terrorism is long. The Haymarket bombing occurred in Chicago in 1886. "
7 " Where did phobias come from? Sachs wondered. Some childhood trauma, some genetic imprinting "
8 " RIP, Rest in Peace, though what’s the point of that? What else’re the dead going to be doing? It’s a better message than Good Luck, don’t you think? "
9 " Natural selection applies to criminal activity, as well as to newts and simians. "
10 " Knuckle time” referred to those moments when you have to go up against your worst fears. "
11 " Fort”Y "
12 " he’d never been a people person. He was a science person. A mind person. "
13 " What would it be like to tattoo a living, beating heart? Could it be done? "
14 " We’re defined and enlivened by what opposes us. And when the Watchmaker died, Lincoln Rhyme died a bit too. "
15 " They look like wounds, not tattoos. "
16 " And if it took awhile, that means she was in pain for a long time. "
17 " The workbench was filled with glassware, books, syringes, tattooing machine parts, plastic bags, tools. Dozens of books on toxins and thousands of downloaded Internet documents, "
18 " of your bed as you slept. Sachs had brought Braden Alexander’s clothing too. Cooper "