"Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today."

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Lisa Unger

#Today Quotes #Finest Quotes #Crime Quotes

“We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing.”

Source : Letter his White's aunt, January 6, 1800.
“My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.”

Source : Margaret Edson (2014). “Wit: A Play”, p.44, Macmillan
“I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.”
“Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.”
“All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation.”
“You can't be fixed. You can't be saved.”

Source : Michelle Hodkin (2014). “The Retribution of Mara Dyer”, p.59, Simon and Schuster
“Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.”
“Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.”

Source : Elizabeth Aston (2003). “Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel”, Touchstone

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