Barry Lyga - I Hunt Killers (2012)

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And what? Accidentally cuts off three fingers postmortem? 'Oops, oh, no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off some fingers! Guess I'll just take them with me.... Oh, darn, where did that middle finger go?

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A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.

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Fear can keep you alive. The trick is not to let it overwhelm you. Not to let it rule you. If you're afraid, that's the universe trying to tell you something. Get away. Don't run; don't panic. Just pick up and walk out, calm as you please. Panic makes you stupid.

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Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

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Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.

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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.

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Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.

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This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.

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We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.

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He moved to run a hand through her cornrows, then pulled back remembering the one time he's tried that-Connie had lectured him on the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not touch thy black girlfriend's hair. Ever.

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You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.

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Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail his imagination would allow. It turned out his imagination allowed quite a bit. He spent the rest of the day convincing himself—over and over—not to do it.

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Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough that she knew it wasn't hearts and flowers. Well, except for the occasional heart cut from a chest. And the kind of flowers you send to funerals.

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What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.

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