“Hello, Sarge,’ he said, the creaking sound of him pushing the door fully
open. ‘Agent Ravi here, reporting for boyfriending duties.”
“People engage in a lot of self-deception,” she said with a firm grip on his arm to keep her balance. “They have this need to write books and get a PhD and become professors and noted intellectuals. But almost everyone’s mediocre. They’re intelligent enough to recognize genius and excellence, and with a bit of luck they may achieve something above average themselves. But the vast majority of people are middling. And they don’t want to accept that. Instead, they buy houses and build patios and have children, which serves as a watertight alibi. I never got to write that book, they say. Because I have the house and the patio and the children to take care of. And besides, they like it just fine at work. Next summer, they’re going on an extended vacation to France. They say they love to read, but how much do they really read? A book a month, if that. They say they wish they had more time to read. They say they wish they had more time to write. That they would love to write that book, but time. There’s not enough time.”
Source: Collected Works: A Novel
“Hey Sarge, Remember me.”
Source: A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder Series 4 Books Set By Holly Jackson
“Plus Tom always said 'pacifically' when he meant 'specifically.'" Cara clicked eagerly and pointed at Pip in agreement. "Massive red flag that was."
"I pacifically think you’re better off without him," said Pip.
"I atlantically think so too,’" added Cara”
Source: A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder Series 4 Books Set (Paperback) - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder; Good Girl, Bad Blood; As Good as Dead; Kill Joy
“women can be just as dangerous as men.”
Source: A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder Series 4 Books Set (Paperback) - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder; Good Girl, Bad Blood; As Good as Dead; Kill Joy
“I can't. I'm just some kid, remember.'
'An idiot said that to you ' he said. 'You are not just some anything. You're Pippa fricking Fitz-Amobi'. He smiled and it was the saddest thing she'd ever seen.”
Source: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
“You think you'd know what a killer sounds like. That their lies would have a different texture, some barely perceptible shift. A voice that thickens, grows sharp and uneven as the truth slips beneath the jagged edges. You'd think that, wouldn't you?”
Source: Good Girl, Bad Blood
“We’re a team, remember. You and me.”
Source: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
“Remember me, Sarge?”
“We see, then, that even from the zoological point of view, which is the least interesting and—note this—not decisive, a being in such condition can never achieve a genuine equilibrium; we also see something that differs from the idea of challenge-response in Toynbee and, in my judgement, effectively constitutes human life: namely, that no surroundings or change of surroundings can in itself be described as an obstacle, a difficulty, and a challenge for man, but that the difficulty is always relative to the projects which man creates in his imagination, to what he customarily calls his ideals; in short, relative to what man wants to be. This affords us an idea of challenge-and-response which is much deeper and more decisive than the merely anecdotal, adventitious, and accidental idea which Toynbee proposes. In its light, all of human life appears to us as what it is permanently: a dramatic confrontation and struggle of man with the world and not a mere occasional maladjustment which is produced at certain moments.”
Source: An Interpretation of Universal History