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"No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field."
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"One crime has to be concealed by another."

"Every sin is the result of a collaboration."

"It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so."

"I guess having one hundred and four condoms full of heroin in your guts and the thought of a firing squad in your head make will make most things seem insignificant."

"I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving."

"I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale."

"This was a new buzz, better than anything I'd tried before. For the first time, I could fight back at others. I'd even fight with a parked car! I was totally kyboshed on these drugs, I didn't care how many boys were standing outside the pub, I'd run over and fight the lot of them. Even though I came off second best, in my mind, I still walked away a winner. I showed them I wasn't a little shit-bag that always got battered, not when I had the drugs in me."

"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."
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"There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can."

"He is polite, the perfect gentleman at first. Yet she knows his kindness is an act he performs for himself to justify what he's about to do."

"People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get."

"The breeze around them seemed to drop " dead " like a door to the best things had just closed."

"Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher " her asabikeshiinh " with its willow-web and invisible 'lady spider' apparently weaving her spells " an object Bea insisted always hung above her in bed."

"There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it."

"A silence absorbed them both " a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate."

"Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends " sorry, I meant characters."
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