Book: Broken doll

Mirroring - a tactic that creates a sense of security, understanding.

... people we make faults and weaknesses. Accumulated over the life of the wrinkle - the best storytellers of our lives.

Elimination method: throw away the impossible and what remains - however improbable it may be, - is the answer.

All questions need answers. We should at least try to find the answer, because the only way progress is achieved. If we avoided difficult questions, and be hung on the trees, blissfully unaware that opposable thumb can make us kings of the jungle.

... you always ride the subway every day. You're there feel like a fish in water, and familiar places gives us the illusion of security.

Why would he wait?
- Because he wants to catch her by surprise. He wants to neutralize all of its protective mechanisms.
Question: what do people do in bars? <...>
- Drink. <...>
- That is, drinking. Alcohol is the most effective way to cope with social taboos. If you want to punch someone's protection, get him drunk! In addition, the consumption of alcohol is not punishable by law, and it can be bought absolutely everywhere.

Here is his hunting area. He is calm and comfortable, like home. Here it is your own.
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- Predators stalk prey carefully. They choose a place in the Bush and wait.

The task was to rise from the zero mark before you begin a serious attack. For this purpose there were only two options - the first to hit and to hit harder against a strong opponent, or to be smart. I chose the second method.

I didn't care what I think about other people. This is one of the very few advantages that my father is a serial killer. If I let opinions of others affect my state, I would no longer be in this world, with me it happened the same thing with my mother. She died three and a half years ago - harried woman and not had time to breathe a sigh of relief from the news of the death of the man she called husband for so many years. She's drunk, slowly killing themselves.

... Every lie has some truth.

Every important decision is the last straw, an event that tips the scales in one direction or another.

There is a direct correlation between amount of experience and the speed with which you can recover from the horror. The more you've seen, the faster the shake it off again seen. Tempton it took most of the way in "Angelica", to restore the balance, and I have come to myself as soon as we got out of the lab.

... The Golden rule of any battle for power is that it is impossible to do step up until there is full confidence in the next step of the opponent. Sun Tzu two and a half millennia ago is true to say that we should know our enemies.

... I don't believe in coincidences, luck, fate. But I believe that in an infinite Universe everything is possible: for example, the fact that the young man with the winter surname in his early twenties can have very gray hair. But, if you take a theoretically possible chance, my case is not so impressive. Much more striking in history when man and woman loving each other in school, break up, separated by circumstances and the oceans, and live each his life. And then they, having no connection with each other for fifty years, suddenly meet quite by accident on vacation in some God-forsaken corner of the world. And the story continues from the same point at which it ended half a century ago.