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“The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves' eyes heavily lashed and with the same look of troubled pain at the unpredictability of the world's terrors.” quote by P.D. James — Download Open image

““The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves' eyes heavily lashed and with the same look of troubled pain at the unpredictability of the world's terrors.””

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“Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt; it was often the most innocent who were the most terrified.”

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“The young seldom lie convincingly. They haven’t had time to practise like the rest of us.”

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“She had quickly learned that to show unhappiness was to risk the loss of love.”

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We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

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