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1 " We try on many masks throughout our lives. Eventually we find one that fits so well we never take it off. "
― Caroline Graham , Death In Disguise (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #3)
2 " Crashingly insensitive to the feelings of others, Troy’s own sensibilities were fragile to a fault. He was on his high horse at the merest hint of criticism. "
3 " Never forget, she used to tell him, that Jesus loves you. Personally he’d never felt this and, even if it had been true, would have gained little consolation—for who wanted to be loved by someone who loved everybody? And then only because it was their job. "
4 " I had a sports teacher like that,’ said Troy when Janet had departed. ‘Knobbly knees, plimsolls, no tits, whistle round her neck. They really turn me up, dykes. All members of the buggerocracy, come to that. "
5 " Where are you coming from on this?’ cried Heather, tossing her head back and revealing briefly an embryonic suggestion of what might have been, in the fullness of time, given intensive exercise and a great deal of hugely expensive plastic surgery, the whimsical beginnings of a chin. Ken "
6 " Brutal duplicity was his coinage. He played his games with little else. "