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Veiled (Alex Verus, #6) QUOTES

Veiled (Alex Verus, #6) QUOTES

1 " I’ll use my divination and look into the future. Hey, you know what, I’m seeing the future right now. If I stand here and wait, then in three minutes a train’s going to come. And after that, another train’s going to come. Here, I’ll let you guess what’s going to happen afterwards. I’ll give you a hint—there’s a train. "

― Benedict Jacka , Veiled (Alex Verus, #6)

2 " You’re lucky you didn’t know him back in his tech phase. There was this time in our second year when we were living in the same house. Kitchen table kept wobbling so Landis shoved this metal saucer under one of the legs. Wasn’t until two weeks later we found out it was a land mine. "

― Benedict Jacka , Veiled (Alex Verus, #6)

3 " I suppose I should look on the bright side. I might be going to an indictment, but at least it wasn’t mine. Yet "

― Benedict Jacka , Veiled (Alex Verus, #6)

4 " Someone who’s amoral and selfish can be a threat to you, but they’re also a threat to everyone else, and that tends to limit how much time they can spend on you personally. But someone who believes in what he’s doing can convince other people that opposing you is the right thing to do. In the long run, that’s a lot more dangerous. "

― Benedict Jacka , Veiled (Alex Verus, #6)

5 " Haken sighed. “World doesn’t always work the way we want it to, Verus.” Haken was maybe in his midthirties, but all of a sudden, in the flashing police lights, he looked much older and very tired. “Just have to live with "

― Benedict Jacka , Veiled (Alex Verus, #6)

6 " But there’s a certain point where trying to choose the lesser of two evils is just an exercise in futility. "

― Benedict Jacka , Veiled (Alex Verus, #6)