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Your beauty puts me in such grace that I cannot move, like a dead rabbit to a roman hunter. - Anthony "Kubilay" Girit

What's past is prologue. William Shakespeare, The Tempest Don't bother me with all that history crap. It just gets in the way of action! United States Army colonel, Vietnam, mid-1960s

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave, I would have him a debonair knave, and I liked Rupert Hentzau better than his long-faced, close-eyed companions.

I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.

Ban Nab. It's a palindrome.' He said nothing, so I added: 'It reads the same forwards and backwards.' 'Do geese see God?' Hawthorne asked.

And what of the vicar? The word sat at the top of the page, underlined. That would suggest some sort of operation involving religion, but frankly, church was the last place you would expect to find anyone from Scorpia.

I've made some tea,' Judith Matheson said. Of course she had. She was the sort of woman who would always make tea no matter what the crisis. Lose your leg in a hideous industrial accident and she'd be there with a nice cup of Earl Grey.

German accent, as if he

content and only his death would suffice. The metal key that

I've often been quite tempted to write a book." "You could have the launch party back in jail.

I was asleep, of course, and dreaming, but I remember wondering how he had managed to enter my world before the thought occurred to me that maybe it was I who had entered his.

And she had just signed a major deal with Walt Disney, including a strict morality clause that, almost certainly, prohibited the act of murder.

felt particularly sorry for Judith Matheson. She'd put so much work into organising the weekend and what had she got out of it? A dead sponsor, a cut-up lawn and a divorce.

Christopher Nolan may be a big-shot director, but he's got his head right up his arse. Not that I care. Eleven weeks shooting. A ton of money. And I go to France.

It was a joke!' There was an extraordinary malevolence in the four words, as if Grunshaw was deliberately overlooking something that was painfully obvious to everyone else. 'I poured maybe two, three inches

A book about me? He's putting me in his book? I don't want to be in his fucking book! I want my lawyer in this room. If he puts me in his book, I'll fucking sue him.

Let's get divers into the river and into the sea." She gestured at the photographs. And we need to search here … the farm, the hills, everything!

You're disgusting,' Godwin said. 'You make it sound so … sordid.

seemed to be a remarkably up-beat interpretation of such an act of vandalism. Her

there could be no doubt of that. They were betting on how long a fighter could last against him.

the 'c' word is more than that. It's used by sour, frustrated men, nearly always about women. It's a word full of misogyny – crudely offensive.

What do you mean by that?' Hawthorne looked genuinely sympathetic and sounded so interested that even Akira was taken by surprise. That was another of his tricks. He had a way of getting people to tell him perhaps more than they intended

I don't think readers will give a damn about a divorce lawyer,' she said. 'Can't you make him something more interesting … like an actor or a musician?

Another false arrest coming so soon after the last one isn't going to look too good on your CV, is it!