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“The round-head counselor/warden finally stopped talking. He was worn out. He folded his short arms defensively”

— Holly Goldberg Sloan

“He talked to people and fooled them into liking him, trusting him. He talked to them while he was killing them, torturing and turning…

— Markus Zusak

“By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism,…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“The horsemen came closer. Vimes was not good at horsemen. Something in him resented being addressed by anyone eight feet above the ground. He…

— Terry Pratchett

“He'd tried so hard to fight his fear, but there was a something liberating about giving up the battle and recognizing his fear was…

— Marie Sexton

“He was new to the sycophancy and cowardice of men; their inability to think alone appalled him as much as did their need to…

— Kate O'Brien

“he could be suspected of knowing anything about the murder, but still he could not be comfortable in the midst of this gossip. It…

— Mark Twain

“It was difficult to understand him. On the one hand he pandered even to the most unimportant things while on the other he was…

— Heinz Linge

“That raised Mason’s eyebrows and gave him something different to think about as he headed in for his meeting. He was hardly above enjoying…

— Mar Preston

“He made so many people uneasy. Everyone was always very friendly toward him, and no one was ever very nice; everyone spoke to him,…

— Joseph Heller

“There was something decidedly unpleasant about him, sinister, at the same time absurd, that combination of the ludicrous and alarming soon to be widely…

— Anthony Powell

“He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility and reacted…

— Ken Follett