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21 " There are Sutlers everywhere. "
― Richard House , The Kills (The Kills, #1-4)
22 " More often than not it’s the mascara and lipstick combination that tips the balance. These military wives could do with some lessons. Seriously. Why would you leave the house looking like a monkey had a party on your face? "
23 " Because what matters, what counts, isn’t how well you are loved, but how able you are to give love. "
24 " What is awful is that there were always reasons to do one thing and not another, but these reasons disappear. You don’t remember them. They just go, and you’re left with what you did or didn’t do, and this idea that you didn’t do enough. The truth isn’t always so easy. You can’t think yourself back into that place that made everything how it was. "
25 " If you look hard enough at any system, at some point it is going to reveal its patterns, habits, and operations. "
26 " The older they became the less time they spent together, and the less time they spent together the less dissatisfaction they felt toward each other. "
27 " Wickedness is not as interesting as you might hope. "
28 " What you have to understand, he says, is the mentality of the Iraqi versus the mentality of the average Westerner. "
29 " He calls these projects gophers, as in, go-for-the-money (don’t-deliver-the-project). "
30 " So why are you here?” Watts asked Santo.“Because, Paul, is it Paul? I’m here to put the f in freedom. "
31 " Pakosta shrugged. “The problem is how they drive. People fall asleep. Lose the road. They won’t slow down or stop. I’m sick of picking dogs out of fenders. "
32 " They weren’t a couple. They were two people making do. "
33 " This man threatened the volunteer then returned twenty minutes later to beat him up. At a charity bonfire. In Wilford. It’s not the Middle East,” she said, “it’s Wilford, Nottingham. I don’t want to be among these people. They complain about a charity bonfire, and right on their doorstep there are children as young as eleven selling drugs along the river. "