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41 " Often it’s to suss you out and decide if you’re hiding something and how you hide things. "
― Andrew Mayne , Looking Glass (The Naturalist, #2)
42 " They give you the chance to tell small lies so they can see how you handle the bigger ones. There’s a reason lawyers tell you to shut up when a cop talks to you. If you’re lucky, that’s the first and last time a cop ever "
43 " They’ve met a thousand liars and heard a million lies. Yours ain’t gonna fly. They won’t tell you that you’re full of crap—they’ll keep you talking, getting you to lie about a bunch of things, making notes in their head while you tell yourself that you’re the most persuasive motherfucker on the planet. They want you to walk away thinking you got away with it, or so panicked you screw up in front of them. "
44 " There are even genes that correlate with charisma. Some of them overcompensate for a lack of internal empathy. They make you feel like they care more than anyone else while you’re nothing to them. "
45 " You’re one cold motherfucker. At least Mathis doesn’t make you feel like shit.” “That’s so you don’t see the knife coming. I’m honest. "
46 " understand guilt. I know pain. The only antidote I have is brutal honesty. "
47 " My gut says to like him. The rational part of my brain tells me to pay attention to the obvious. "
48 " The whole reason this place exists is because of the broken homes these kids fall in and out of. This lady is doing her best to give them a stable environment. "
49 " How the fuck did you get away?” “Fear, man. Fear. It’s your best friend.” He pauses for a moment. “But you know that. Don’t you? "
50 " Watch yourself. Don’t think just because you survived one monster you’ll survive the next. I’m alive because I kept running from them. Not to them. "
51 " And even though it kills me when you’re not looking at me, or it feels that way, I love the fact that you’re still trying to put things together—to make them better. And I’d never sacrifice that, even if it meant your eyes were always on me. "
52 " Get the motherfucker. Stay the hell away from him, but go get him. It’s what you do now. And if "
53 " I can see the messy, haphazard collection of instructions that make up a human life. While some would argue that the fact that this almost random pattern is proof of a miracle, I’d point out that by that logic, every living thing that manages to be born is a miracle—and if we’re all miracles, then nobody is, because the word has lost its meaning. Life works or it doesn’t. "
54 " Thank you. Um . . . how does billing work?” “This one is on me because you’re fighting the good fight. Next time I send Julian a fat invoice "
55 " I’m not gonna let them go easy on me knowing he’s out there hurting some other kid. How can a decent person live with that?” Indeed. Even a guy like Artice, who’s caused his share of mayhem, sees that. "
56 " my animal brain, my early warning system that listens for noises and looks for the signs of predators, "
57 " Tell me something so that when you look your god in the eye, you can convince yourself you’re a good man. "
58 " Neuroscientists say they can predict an action our mind has decided to take moments before our conscious mind has even decided what we think we’re going to do. The function of consciousness, they argue, isn’t to make decisions, but to rationalize them after the fact. "
59 " CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE DEED The title to 17658 Wimbledon has had four owners since it was built. From "
60 " This is why I laugh at the notion of reconciling faith and science. Science is based on the premise that logic and reason can tell us the true nature of reality. Religion is based on the idea that when logic and reason don’t support a predetermined view of reality, they are at fault. "