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The Third Rule (Eddie Collins #1) QUOTES

The Third Rule (Eddie Collins #1) QUOTES

1 " …but his problem was infinity; his problem was time running along the x-axis versus stress running along the y-axis, and there never seemed to be time without stress. Stress was a constant. "

― Andrew Barrett , The Third Rule (Eddie Collins #1)

2 " Far as I know, Legal Aid was invented to help poor people fight wrongs; [the criminals] are abusing the system, and the damned lawyers help them do it. They’re all sticking two fingers up at them who pay their taxes. And I’ll tell you sommat for free, Sir George, them who pays the taxes are eventually going to get fed up of it. "

― Andrew Barrett , The Third Rule (Eddie Collins #1)

3 " It had been more or less the same for Jilly. Except that she had her parents there to field any phone calls, to accept the flowers at the door and pick up the cards that dropped like tears through the letterbox. She sat before her dressing table mirror in bra and pants and let time drip away, watching a face she didn’t recognise and feeling raw emotions eat away at the drugs she was on. The emotions were gradually winning. "

― Andrew Barrett , The Third Rule (Eddie Collins #1)

4 " People who go to jail breed people who go to jail. "

― Andrew Barrett , The Third Rule (Eddie Collins #1)

5 " She smiled as though someone had just offered her, the oldest virgin in town, a fully functioning Kingsize Vibro vibrator and a deluxe inhibition bypass. "

― Andrew Barrett , The Third Rule (Eddie Collins #1)

6 " If you want to kill serious crime, you have to kill serious criminals! "

― Andrew Barrett , The Third Rule (Eddie Collins #1)

7 " I am not their f*****g entertainment. And I am not a f*****g hero! Given the choice, a hero would do exactly the same again. I wouldn’t. Okay? "

― Andrew Barrett , The Third Rule (Eddie Collins #1)

8 " Like a submarine ejecting ballast, he bobbed to the surface as another sense pulled his eyelids all the way open like roller blinds in the old cartoons. "

― Andrew Barrett , The Third Rule (Eddie Collins #1)

9 " He couldn’t read her these days; it was as though she’d been taken away from him, and in her place some alien had dropped a figure that looked like Alice, but was a cheap imitation of her with half the emotions missing or malfunctioning. "

― Andrew Barrett , The Third Rule (Eddie Collins #1)

10 " the Geneva convention: thou shalt not stab thine enemy with a rusty bayonet, lest he catch blood poisoning. "

― Andrew Barrett , The Third Rule (Eddie Collins #1)