Afterwards Smiley always thought of that interview as a fan dance; a calculated progression of disclosures, each revealing different parts of a mysterious entity. Finally Steed-Asprey, who seemed to be Chairman, removed the last veil, and the truth stood before him in all its dazzling nakedness. He was being offered a post in what, for want of a better name, Steed-Asprey blushingly described as the Secret Service. Anonymous
There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.
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Charlaine Harris
I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.
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Astrid Artistikem Cruz
Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?
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Sylvia Plath
He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.
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Will Cuppy
The Jews are cowering along the wall, eyes wide, palms up, fingers splayed -- a collective posture of submission. Even now, with everything that has happened, with the city in ruins and the dead as thick upon the streets as busted glass, they don't want...
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Miles Watson