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1 " It was one of those moments when the moral high ground opens and swallows you up. "
― Tom Holt , The Portable Door (J. W. Wells & Co., #1)
2 " The worst punishment there is for wanting the wrong thing is getting it. "
3 " The world is full of interiors that bleach the spirit. Hospitals, police stations, job centres, local government offices and prisons all have their own subtle type of vampire colour scheme and black-hole furnishing, capable by accident or design of wiping away a person's self-esteem and will to resist, like boiled-over soup off a ceramic hob. "
4 " Mr Tanner frowned at him, as though he was a spelling mistake. "
5 " it was all very well for Neville to talk blithely about chucking in this job and getting a nice one instead, but it had taken him a very long time to find anybody who was prepared to trade him money for a part of his lifespan, and the only people who’d proved willing to make such a deal were, by any criteria, as crazy as a barrelful of ferrets. "
6 " Being a really evil bastard isn’t just a job, it’s a vocation! "
