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21 " After he was born, the midwife said, “Boys wreck your house, girls wreck your head.” Archie seemed intent on doing both. "
― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)
22 " tricoteuse "
23 " How would he manage if he became blind? At least if he was blind he could get a guide dog - there was an upside to everything, a silver lining of helpful Labs and noble German Shepherds eager to be his eyes. What if he became deaf? They had dogs for the deaf, too, but Martin wasn´t sure what they did. Tugged at your sleeve a lot probably while looking meaningfully at things. "
24 " Hegelian synthesis. Dualism, "
25 " The kind of stuff you tended not to talk about because it wasn’t usually a good idea to reveal so much disrepair to other people. "
26 " Our business is concluded. "
27 " In Jackson’s experience it was often best to avoid the thing you were afraid of. Discretion really was sometimes the better part of valor. "
28 " So, what do they pay you for...exactly?"Slapped around. Tied up. Beaten. Given orders, made to do things.""What kind of things?""You know."No, I can't even begin to imagine.""Lick my boots, crawl on floor, eat like dog.""Nothing useful, then, like hoovering? "
29 " His body was exhausted, but his brain had apparently discovered a secret amphetamine factory and was popping pills at will. The picture on the wall opposite his bed was "
30 " a group of mostly middle-aged people (Scots, by their pallor) doing tai chi—Jackson didn’t get tai chi, it looked okay on television when you saw people doing it in China, but in Scotland it looked, let’s face it, arsy. "
31 " Astonishing things happen all the time,” Jackson said. “We just don’t notice. "
32 " You can’t have it both ways,” one of her girlfriends said. “Tough and tender, men are like steaks, it’s one or the other.” Tough and tender, a contradiction in terms, Hegelian synthesis. "
33 " Джексон читал в «Нэшнл джиогрэфик» (недавно оформил подписку, тем самым окончательно закрепившись в категории «мужчины средних лет»), что, по исследованиям генетиков, женщины находят дорогу по приметам местности, а мужчины используют геометрию пространства. "