333 Quotes by Jeff Lindsay

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    It’s not that I have anything to hide – I’ve already hidden all of it – but.

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    It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is.

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    I have really good eyesight,” I said, wondering if everyone who came in to see me today was going to be profoundly annoying.

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    Aramaic has no vowels. So MLK spells Moloch.” “Or milk,” Deborah said. “Really, Debs, if you think our killer would tattoo milk on his neck, you need a nap.

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    It’s always me, isn’t it? I’m not really a very nice person, but for some reason it’s always me that they come to with their problems.

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    They don’t barrel into a room with guns blazing as most children of seven and ten do. As I have said, they were somewhat damaged by their dear old biological dad, and one consequence is that you never see them come and go: they enter the room by osmosis. One moment they are nowhere to be seen and the next they are standing quietly beside you, waiting to be noticed.

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    But to have a second person present, watching and taking pictures, turned a very private act into a kind of performance. It was absolutely indecent – the man was a pervert. If only I had been capable of moral outrage, I am quite sure I would have been full of it. As it was, though, I found myself more eager than ever to get viscerally acquainted with MacGregor.

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    I read on. Aramaic, like Hebrew, did not use vowels. Instead, you had to supply them yourself.

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