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1 " God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers. "
― Davis Bunn , Lion of Babylon (Marc Royce #1)
2 " His eyes touched lightly, and passed on. "
3 " He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned. "
4 " It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand. "
5 " Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim. "
6 " Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel. "
7 " The distance had been evaporated by humor "
8 " There’s no debt. There never has been. We are friends. "
9 " He knew how much pride his people took him being forever misunderstood. "
10 " For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present. "
11 " He had been privy to much, and blind to even more. "
12 " Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant". "