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1 " it’s easy to blame everyone else when it hurts to blame yourself. But in the end you have to face it. "
― Iris Johansen , The Face of Deception (Eve Duncan, #1)
2 " He chuckled as he realized how he'd rationalized betrayal into gallantry. Damn, he was a good lawyer. But "
3 " Gil: “I doubt if [Eve] allows herself to be driven in a direction she doesn’t want to go.”Logan: “But it’s possible to block out every other path so she’s forced to take the only one left. "
4 " And how close is a nervous breakdown to going over the edge? You never realize what a tightrope we all walk until you almost slip into the chasm. "
5 " She walked across the room and stood before the shelf bearing the new skull. “What happened to you?” she murmured as she removed the skull's ID tag and tossed it on the work-bench. “An accident? Murder?” She hoped it wasn't murder, but it usually was in these cases. It hurt her to think of the terror the child had suffered before death. The death of a child. Someone had held this girl as a baby, had watched her take her first steps. Eve prayed that someone had loved her and given her joy before she had ended up lost in that hole in the forest. "
6 " [Eve:] “Tell me, Logan, doesn’t all this subservience and courtesy stick in your throat?”[Logan:] “A little. But I can live with it. I learned a long time ago that if you’re not the most important chip in a computer, you grease the wheels and don’t get in the way. "
