

“If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
― The Polymorph
― The Polymorph

“Every war casts up certain small groups among ethnic populations: minorities too cowardly to fight openly, too insignificant to play any independent political part, but despicable enough to act as paid executioners to one of the fighting powers. In this war those people were the Ukrainian and Lithuanian Fascists.”
― The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
― The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

“Dying should come easy:
like a freight train you
don't hear when
your back is
turned.”
― The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems
like a freight train you
don't hear when
your back is
turned.”
― The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems

“You're my lifeline," he whispers, and he kisses my knuckles before pressing my palm against his.”
― Fifty Shades Darker
― Fifty Shades Darker

“He says it was tourists being careless, where I see a fiendishly clever murder attempt.”
“Mr. McCarthy, you’d better explain.”
“Patrick, please. You’ll be tempted to laugh. It was a banana skin.”
― Murder on Family Grounds
“Mr. McCarthy, you’d better explain.”
“Patrick, please. You’ll be tempted to laugh. It was a banana skin.”
― Murder on Family Grounds
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