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  1. Christopher Fowler _ Full Dark House

    The city survived in fragments, as though it had been painted on glass and the glass had shattered. He
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  2. Christopher Fowler _ Full Dark House

    Look at the photographs of Hitler at Nuremberg two years ago, the deadness behind the eyes that denies humanity, just as it betrays the true darkness of the soul.' May
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  3. Christopher Fowler _ Full Dark House

    War changes that. Crimes start to happen without reason, because people are upset, or angry, or just frustrated. Acts of violence are squalid, casual, mundane. Contrition, misery, fingerprints everywhere, children in tears.
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  4. Christopher Fowler _ Full Dark House

    The first one, his first sight of a dead body. That had changed everything. A fall from innocence, and the start of a lifelong fascination with violent crime.
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  5. Christopher Fowler _ Full Dark House

    Thanks to Hitler, we are no longer living in a world that cares about the death of someone because they were loved in the past. It cares only if that death can do damage to the future.
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  6. Christopher Fowler _ Full Dark House

    He kept his shirt-tail hanging out below the hem of his jacket as a white flag to motorists; over four thousand people had been killed in blackout accidents during the first few months of the war. It was safer to take an overseas posting with the British Expeditionary Force.
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  7. Christopher Fowler _ Full Dark House

    May felt exhilarated around Bryant. He had always imagined that somewhere out there, away from suburban dullness, ardent young people were allowed to give freer rein to their thoughts. He felt as though he had arrived at a place he had always wanted to be.
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  8. Christopher Fowler _ Full Dark House

    Phobias are powerful vehicles for aggressive feelings. They condense anxiety. Intrusive phobias aren't part of general personalities, they just kick in at key moments. They're a defence against intense trauma, fear of intimacy, stuff like that.
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  9. Christopher Fowler _ Full Dark House

    Throughout history, human nature remains unchanged. The world's oldest questions are still being asked. Medea, Oedipus, we're not adding anything that the Greeks didn't already know.
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  10. Christopher Fowler _ Full Dark House

    I know how the world works. Business decisions are not made for the good of the people, but for the sake of profit, loyalty and expedience.
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  11. Christopher Fowler _ Full Dark House

    {In the theatre} Thanks.' He paused on the stairs. "And good-"Don't say it!" yelled Helena. "No whistling, no well-wishing.""I thought you weren't superstitious.""I'm not,' she said defiantly, 'but obviously there are limits.
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  12. Christopher Fowler _ Full Dark House

    It was a violent place in which to discover a purpose. It was a good place to forge a friendship.
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