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1 " And he owned a lot of books, although just now and then, when it got dark and the shelves loomed over him, he got the feeling that they owned him. "
― K.J. Charles , Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)
2 " What I say is, one can be as moral as one likes, but one should have the courtesy to do it in private, like any other bad habit "
3 " Thank God they were British. He took a deep breath. “Cup of tea? "
4 " I'd call you a whore but you're nothing so honest "
5 " Why do we count the cost of change, but not the cost of the world staying the same? "
6 " My dear chap, this is a bookshop. There’s never anywhere better to be. "
7 " He had no idea what civilians, or civilised people, would say in these circumstances. Thanks for that, old chap, much obliged, perhaps? Ought he apologise for coming in his mouth? Would this be a good moment to restart the conversation about where Kim had learned to use a knife? Thank God they were British. He took a deep breath. “Cup of tea? "
8 " If you couldn’t have a thing without hurting someone who didn’t deserve it, you shouldn’t have it. "
9 " I volunteered to go kill men who I’d have had a drink with if I’d met them in a pub, and that wasn’t courage, just a twist in the head that went the other way round to shellshock. Calling it honour is putting ribbons on a pile of shit. It might look good, but it still stinks. "
10 " Will shrugged. “I’ll be voting Labour if this election comes about, and higher taxes and redistribution of wealth sound like good things to me. But I don’t like bombs, or blowing up civilians. "
11 " I know I had to do it: that was why I did it. I don’t stab people by accident. "
12 " callipygous "
13 " He tried not to curse his uncle for administrative incompetence, but it was difficult. "
14 " This book contains references to a pandemic and the spread of infectious disease. "
15 " I got my medals for hand to hand fighting. It’s when you take the personal out of it—the barrage from miles away, the machine guns—that it becomes slaughter. "
16 " He’d been apprenticed to a joiner before the war, but that felt like decades ago: all he was good at now was killing people, which was discouraged. "
17 " Maybe Kim would, maybe he wouldn’t: Will could wait and see. In the meantime, he still had his right hand and someone to think about, plus a sense of exciting possibilities that he hadn’t felt in so long he’d almost forgotten what it was like. A fuck, a fight, a friendship: he’d take any or all. "