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"When the darkness fell, New York City became something else, any old Sinatra song notwithstanding. Bad things happened in the night, on the streets of that other city. Noir York City."
"They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was all over. The storm seemed to lose its frenzy. The ragged clouds gave way to the stars above. A bit closer to heaven."
"They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over."
"No begging, no bribes. She knew better. Honor among killers; we who are about to die. Both of us knew how this would end: in pain and suffering."
"It's ridiculous you've made it this far."
"Valkyr had been meant to be a white-winged maiden who would lift you to a warrior's heaven. But it had turned out to be a one-way demon ride to hell. The devil was in the drug. I knew. I had met him."
"Mine wasn't the most original approach to the problem, it wasn't as if it hadn't all been done before-- An eye for an eye, the first principle of revenge, old as dirt, still going strong. The cardinal rule in going after someone with an intention to kill was not to make it personal, which it almost always ended up being anyway."
"See? My last smoke. It's bad for the baby."
"I had dreamed of revenge. Those dreams were always nightmares, of coming close and then failing. Now I was close. I had a name to guide me. Nicole Horne. I had nothing to lose."
", the end of the Viking world with a terrible winter that covered the Earth in ice, when vile crimes were rampant and all humanity lost. I could see how someone impressionable might get it into their head that we were at the end of time."
"Ragna Rock was as inviting as a headache, flickering and flashing to a machine gun beat. The belly of the nightclub was a gothic theme park that began with bondage games, and led to the nasty stuff from there-- As subtle with its dark message as a cop killer bullet through the heart. Like father, like son. Just like Jack Lupino."
"I don't know about angels, but it's fear that gives men wings."
"Gognitti bailed. I made like Chow Yun-Fat."
"A bomb went off, turning snow into liquid gold. (...) It was a lucky break. The goons inside were spooked, but luck always came with a price tag."
"The word was out. A deadly virus released into the city's corrupt circulatory system. Something wicked this way comes. Max Payne at large."
"So much for being subtle."
"Silence gives consent. (14th century)"
"Fretting cares make grey hairs. (Strauss, 1994 p. 631"
"Never do things by halves."
"Never let the right hand know what the left hand is doing."
"One hand washes the other."
"Handsome is that handsome does. (1670) (Strauss, 1994 p. 879)"
"Hard words break no bones. (Strauss, 1998 p. 17)"
"Drumming is not the way to catch a hare. (Strauss, 1994 p. 753)"
"You must not run after two hares at the same time."
"Make haste slowly."
"Hawks will not pick out Hawk's eyes."
"He that can have patience can have what he will. (Strauss, 1994 p. 87)"
"He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun. (Ward, 1842 p. 54)"
"Two heads are better than one.'"
"We should not expect to find old heads on young shoulders. (Strauss, 1994 p. 77)"
"When the head is sick, the whole body is sick. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1117)"
"Who falls short in the head must be long in the heels."
"Health is better than wealth. (16th century)"
"Health is wealth."
"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools."
"The heart sees farther than the head."
"We are as near to heaven by sea as by land! (Humphrey Gilbert)"
"Men leap over where the hedge is lower."
"And thou unfit for any place but hell. (William Shakespeare)"
"Come hell or high water."
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here. (William Shakespeare)"
"But what is past my help, is past my care. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)"
"Every little helps."
"If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill. (Francis Bacon)"
"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty."
"If you're in a hole, stop digging."
"Home is where the heart is."
"Home sweet home. (H. R. Bishop) Laine, Jarkko (toim.): Suuri sitaattisanakirja. Otava, 1989, p. 157. ISBN 9511109618"
"What is honour? a word. What is that word, honour? Air. (William Shakespeare)"