

“Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her

“The verdict got both the fish and me off the hook.”
― Death Leaves a Shadow
― Death Leaves a Shadow

“No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard and fast and specific decision.”
― The Guns of August
― The Guns of August

“The Japs,” said one Indian, “have reduced Mandalay to ashes, and their bombers are operating all over the country. They are a barbarous foe and have butchered many of their prisoners.”
― EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942
― EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

“Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.”
― Spook Country
― Spook Country
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