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Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13) QUOTES

Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13) QUOTES

1 " Our lives are shaped by the choices we make, of course, and more noticeably by the choices that were wrong. "

― Philip Kerr , Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

2 " It seems to me that lawyers can justify almost anything to themselves as long as it's legal. But you can make anything legal when you put a gun to parliament's head. "

― Philip Kerr , Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

3 " I’ve come to believe that in life it’s best to live for a purpose greater than oneself. "

― Philip Kerr , Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

4 " ...any man is just made up of some deportment and behaviour that have met with the silent approval of a very small number of women. "

― Philip Kerr , Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

5 " ...like my mother used to say, it's good to make ends meet but sometimes it's nice to have enough to tie a bow. "

― Philip Kerr , Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

6 " I can't help thinking that life isn't just about working out who we are and what makes us tick, it's also about understanding why we aren't where we ever expected to be. "

― Philip Kerr , Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

7 " Crimes are committed when men take an idea that seems like a good idea and then can't think of good enough reasons why it might not be a good idea. "

― Philip Kerr , Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

8 " six, "

― Philip Kerr , Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

9 " That’s going to take a box of tools you neither own nor know how to use. "

― Philip Kerr , Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

10 " Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. "

― Philip Kerr , Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

11 " says he sailed his own boat out to the position given by "

― Philip Kerr , Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

12 " won’t entirely discount the scent of her perfume, the glint in her eyes, and the well-stocked baker’s tray she had out in front of her. "

― Philip Kerr , Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

13 " And wit only sounds like wit when there’s someone around to appreciate it. "

― Philip Kerr , Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

14 " Her perfume already had me by the knot in my tie and was gently kicking my brain around inside my skull. "

― Philip Kerr , Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

15 " The older I got the less I cared about anything. "

― Philip Kerr , Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

16 " I'd been alone for so long that I started talking to the radio. At least I assumed that's where the voices were coming from. In the country that produced Luther, Nietzsche, and Adolf Hitler, you can never be absolutely sure about these things. "

― Philip Kerr , Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)