"You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look."

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Source : Karin Slaughter (2014). “The Will Trent Series 7-Book Bundle: Triptych, Fractured, Undone, Broken, Fallen, Criminal, Unseen”, p.652, Bantam

Karin Slaughter

#Looks Quotes #Littles Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.”
“Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.”
“He broke through the barriers of the skies.”
“For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.”
“For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling ***** burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.”
“It depends on your specific conception of God, because belief can equally well leave you with this constant sense that you're coming up short and you're being judged and you're not doing quite the perfect thing. You know, I was brought up very religiously, and I never totally lost that sense, you know, that I'm screwing up.”
“Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.”
“The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.”

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