I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive." Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered "a crime, not a religion.
Jon KrakauerTag: religion rape crime polygamy
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
Thomas HobbesThe man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: punishment crime
(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: punishment crime
There is no mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn -- or worse, indifference -- cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man dies not look back. He doesn't look ahead. He lives in the present.
Jed RubenfeldTag: crime detective-stories
Use your intuition. Picture how things happen, why they happen. Don’t stick rigidly to first impressions, and once you’ve read the rule book, throw it away. Better still, burn the bastard.
Andrew BarrettTag: crime thriller procedural
No one mentioned the sad piece of tinsel, naked in places, hanging across the chimneybreast, nor that Twelfth Night was a week ago. No one mentioned the two Christmas cards on the mantelpiece. No one mentioned them because inside they were blank.
Andrew BarrettTag: crime murder-mystery thriller-procedural
There was noise in the corridor outside Alice’s office; and though it was nothing of concern, they separated. Roger stood, fingers tucked into his waistcoat pockets, admiring prints on the wall that held no interest for him. The noise was Melanie, but her voice, a length of razor wire wrapped in a soufflé, eventually faded.
Andrew BarrettTag: crime thriller murder-mystery procedural
Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.
Damyanti BiswasTag: love romance literary crime flash-fiction
@The darkest and most complex novel in (the Murdoch) series.
Maureen JenningsTag: crime historical-fiction-mystery
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