"[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages."

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Source : Karin Slaughter (2009). “Indelible: A Grant County Thriller”, p.135, Zondervan

Karin Slaughter

#Home Quotes #Men Quotes

“Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.”
“A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?”
“The time for arguing about the powers the people want is over. It's time now to use the powers that we have.”
“What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself, -- it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of colour and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men -- who all feel differently.”
“Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.”
“This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.”
“I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.”
“When designers intentionally trick users into inviting friends or blasting a message to their social networks, they may see some initial growth, but it comes at the expense of users' goodwill and trust. When people discover they've been duped, they vent their frustration and stop using the product.”

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