"Do I make you nervous, Madame Lambert?â€ â€œNo. I just prefer to keep my distance.â€ â€œEvil isnâ€™t contagious.â€ â€œI thought you said you werenâ€™t the most evil man in the world?â€ â€œIâ€™m not. But that doesnâ€™t mean Iâ€™m a good man.â€ â€œI donâ€™t think anyone would argue with that."

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Source : Anne Stuart (2007). “Ice Storm”, p.87, MIRA

Anne Stuart

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“We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.”
“The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police.”
“If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin, you should be movin', if you're not movin', someone's gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick.”
“There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant . . . with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.”
“I always thought of this as God's country.”
“Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.”
“Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.”
“Fate is the opportunity. Choice is what you do with it.”

Source : Karen Rose (2009). “Nothing to Fear (The Chicago Series Book 3)”, p.56, Hachette UK

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