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1 " Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present. "
― Andrew Mayne , Name of the Devil (Jessica Blackwood #2)
2 " You’re a garbage woman with a badge, "
3 " We all have to face some kind of adversity. "
4 " The difference between a wolf and a sheep is that a sheep will stand by and watch a wolf devour its own lambs. If you threaten a wolf’s pup, it’ll rip your throat out. Wolves are foul, vicious creatures. But it’s better to be a wolf pup than a dead lamb. Now good night. "
5 " Damian...""Yes?""Where are you?""Wherever you want me to be.""I'll leave the door unlocked. "
6 " Oh. Well, you’ve got options. Your looks aren’t going anywhere,” she replies, as she fiddles with her controls. “Thanks. I was hoping to find someone who loves me for my mind.” “Oh, that’s adorable. That’s not the way it works, darlin’. Men have to fall in love with you despite all that. "
7 " It has the look of a home where the wife takes care of everything inside, while the husband neglects everything outside. "
8 " The difference between the good and the bad is the law.” “No, Jessica,” Damian replies sharply. “The difference is that the good look out for the innocent and protect them from the wicked. "
9 " If I were to break a law, it would only be of the kind that are designed to inconvenience. Law, like God, is only real when people believe in it. When you know the truth—that it’s really just the good and bad we do to each other that really matters—you see things differently. "
10 " It’s a childish worldview to choose what to believe and what not to in the face of the evidence. Playing peekaboo with the facts doesn’t make them disappear. "
11 " There are only two audible words on the entire tape from this man and you think he’s the pope?” He asks me this as if he’s a father questioning me, his teenage daughter, about the dent in the family car. Do men see these power relationships in the same way? Do other women? I put that question on the side burner. "