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Out of Bounds (Inspector Karen Pirie, #4) QUOTES

Out of Bounds (Inspector Karen Pirie, #4) QUOTES

1 " Patsy McDonald had the artificial brightness and dead eyes that go hand in hand with prescription antidepressants. They "

― Val McDermid , Out of Bounds (Inspector Karen Pirie, #4)

2 " There’s a thing called narcissistic personality disorder. People who have an inflated sense of their own importance, a lack of empathy for others. They’re vain, they crave the power over others they think they deserve. They can be arrogant and callous. They think they’re better than everybody else and they don’t care who they trample on in their desire to get what they want.’ ‘A bit like Donald Trump, then? "

― Val McDermid , Out of Bounds (Inspector Karen Pirie, #4)

3 " I just think sometimes, they were kids once. They ran about the park kicking a football. They had things they wanted to be. Nobody dreams about being that guy there. Nobody sets out to be like him. And we keep coming up against folk that have got themselves completely fucked up. "

― Val McDermid , Out of Bounds (Inspector Karen Pirie, #4)

4 " With the passage of time, people’s memories always edited the past. A lot of details slipped from their grasp, while others that had seemed trivial at the time took on greater weight. "

― Val McDermid , Out of Bounds (Inspector Karen Pirie, #4)

5 " Alas, poor James is dead. / We see his face no more. / For what he thought was H2O / Was H2SO4 "

― Val McDermid , Out of Bounds (Inspector Karen Pirie, #4)