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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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"She'd absolutely adored the library-an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it."

"Kat looked down at her lemonade. 'Do you think he betrayed the love of his life...because of us?''She used the name Romani, Kat,' was Gabrielle's answer. 'And besides...' She let the words draw out. Her gaze went to the distance, and there was a sense of peace in the way she said, 'WE'RE the love of his life.' She raised her glass again. 'To family."

"There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear...' he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, 'Revenge."

"She really wants to be my friend, I realize, and suddenly I feel very sorry for her. She doesn't know what a terrible thing it is she's asking for."

"Kat,' Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows.'Funny, I didn't hear a doorbell.''I let myself in; hope that's okay.'Hale smiled. 'Or the alarm.'She stepped inside, tossed a pocket-size bag of tools onto the bed. 'You're due for an upgrade.'Hale propped himself against the antique headboard and squinted up at her.'She returns.' He crossed his arms across his bare chest. 'You know, I could be naked in here."

"Grace, if you have used an iron within the last six months, I will eat that fork,' Ms. Chancellor says.'Which one?' I try to tease. 'You've got a lot of forks to choose from.''From which to choose, Grace. Do not end your sentences in prepositions, dear.''Of course, I totally see what you're getting at. I mean, at what you're getting."

"A lot of people think that being a Gallagher Girl means not being afraid of anything. Actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. It's not about ignoring fear. It's about facing it, knowing the risks and the costs and sacrificing safety and security anyway."

"You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes."
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