His sister’s transformation from aging tart to fussing nanny seemed almost instantaneous, like the flick of a kaleidoscope.
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“You said the war was a joke. Boys poking each other with sticks.” “The men who make the wars, yes. But the ones who fight, those beautiful kids . . . they’re innocents.”
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“If wishing could make men die, there’d be nary a live one left.”
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Her life was a war life; the war was her life.
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He would die to stay alive, to savor the sensuous gallop of his thoughts toward some truth he hadn’t yet perceived.
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Iron men in wooden boats.
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He understood. Knowing another man’s trouble made it yours
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His sudden revulsion for his wife felt dangerous—a poison that would remain inert only until she perceived it.
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How to explain the workings of the shadow world in a way that would persuade them?
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In four simple words, the man had managed to both establish a jocular familiarity and assure Dexter that he understood exactly who was in charge. A diplomat.