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Observation Quotes
"His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines."
7
"The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see."
7
"Most people spend less time outside than prisoners."
7
"I give her my best smile. Before the alien Armageddon happened, I was known for my smile. Not bragging too much, but I had to be careful never to smile while I drove. It had the capacity to blind oncoming traffic. But it has absolutely no effect on Ringer. She doesn't squint in its overwhelming luminescence. She doesn't even blink."
7
"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."
7
"Good God. Men everywhere."
7
"The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough."
6
"In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait and I wait and I wait for the storm. And then it comes, and the rains wash away the nightmares and the memories. And I'm not afraid."
6
"She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea."
6
"If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be, if it doesn't it never was."
5
"A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time."
5
"I'm almost afraid to tell you. Let's put it this way: clean toilets are the least of your problems in this country."
5
"Steffie took my hand and we walked past the fruit bins, an area that extended about forty-five yards along one wall. The bins were arranged diagonally and backed my mirrors that people accidentally punched when reaching for fruit in upper rows."
5
"New Englanders could be so brusque."
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