“Nothing he said indicated that he was that angry. I mean, there’s a difference between angry and murderous. Isn’t there?
Less than you’d think.”

—  Alastair Reynolds , book The Prefect

Source: The Prefect (2007), Chapter 5 (p. 52)

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