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Gary is ten years older than me and perfect for his job. A big chunk of Missing Persons is getting people who stay far from cops to talk to you – street hookers to tell you about the new girl who matches that teenager on the news, homeless addicts to drop by and mention the guy who tried to sleep on their patch last night and looked a lot like that
... See moreTana French • The Trespasser
William Methwold,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
"I shall never come to the end of your interests, Fisher. I should say that what you don't know isn't worth knowing." "You are wrong," replied Fisher, with a very unusual abruptness, and even bitterness. "It's what I do know that isn't worth knowing.
G.K. Chesterton • The Man Who Knew Too Much (Xist Classics)
The common criminal is a bad man, but at least he is, as it were, a conditional good man. He says that if only a certain obstacle be removed—say a wealthy uncle—he is then prepared to accept the universe and to praise God. He is a reformer, but not an anarchist.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare
For reflection: Job 2:3 Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God. For all, either willingly or unwillingly, do the will of God: Judas and Satan as tools or instruments, John and Peter as sons. —from a letter to Don Giovanni Calabria, September 20, 1947
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
with his passing, there remained only one Perfect still at large in the Languedoc. William Bélibaste was from the Corbières who, sometime before Easter 1305, had killed a fellow shepherd.
Sean Martin • The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages
He was short and sturdy and as a general thing uninspired, and Mr Coyle, who found no amusement in believing in him, had never thought him less exciting than as he stared now out of a face from which you could no more guess whether he had caught an idea than you could judge of your dinner by looking at a dish-cover. Young Lechmere concealed such ac
... See moreSusie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories

Silence would now be criminal: The whole City shall be informed of your incontinence. I will unmask you, Villain, and convince the Church what a Viper She cherishes in her bosom.'