Quotation
Sometimes I wonder why you bothered to have children at all, Magda. Soon as they were born, you were off to repertory in the remotest provincial theater you could find.
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What are murderers like?
-Well, um, you. And me. Everyone. Hot-blooded. Cold-blooded. They do share one or two traits. Vanity. A distorted morality. A lack of empathy. And murderers tend to feel that they are above the rules and laws that govern ordinary mortals.
Heh. Well, that description fits every member of this family.
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Surely we don't need a PI in the house for us all to tell each other the truth.
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There's nothing like a real heart-to-heart.
-Assuming one could find any real hearts under this roof.
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You know, Charles, they're trained combat dogs. They could kill you in an instant if they really wanted to.
-Meaning?
Like the rest of us, they like you.