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1 " Denial has no survival value.’ If you’re going to play, you have to at least recognize what the game is. "
― Barry Eisler , The Chaos Kind (John Rain, #11, Livia Lone, #5)
2 " If you want to get something you never had before, you have to do something you’ve never done before. "
3 " There’s a saying I like. ‘Denial has no survival value.’ If you’re going to play, you have to at least recognize what the game is. "
4 " Power was like a magnet, keeping everything rigid and straight and proper. But without the magnet, it all collapsed into disorganized scrap. "
5 " Trauma never went away. You could try to block it, or bury it, or bludgeon it into submission. But something with that much power couldn’t really be contained. The best you could hope for was a way to channel it. "
6 " Reloader was a term he’d picked up from Dox. It meant someone so formidable you’d empty the whole magazine into him, eject, reload, and empty the second magazine, too, just to be sure. "
7 " sublimation, a primitive part of her mind trying to propitiate her guilt over having failed to protect Nason. Over having inadvertently doomed her. Trauma never went away. You could try to block it, or bury it, or bludgeon it into submission. But something with that much power couldn’t really be contained. The best you could hope for was a way to channel it. "
8 " Diaz moved as though to get out. “No, ma’am,” Dox said, scoping the area. “Tell me where the phone is and you stay put. Just in case there are any unfriendlies in the area.” “Behind a book called Recursion, by Blake Crouch. Level three. Fiction. "
9 " madre de dios. Watching him in profile, she felt a wave "
10 " He called you. You’re the one who insists on carrying a phone.” The moment it came out, he regretted it. When Delilah was pissed, there was no winning move. Your only option was to try to find a way not to play. "