“You can kill me, but you can't make me obey.”
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Jacen Solo, p. 65
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“Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?”
— Jeff Lindsay, book Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
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Context: A few hours after this conversation, I found myself once more in the office of the Boulevard, seated in Pascal's den, and he was saying, "Already? Have you accomplished your interview with Pierre Fauchery?"
"He would not even receive me," I replied, boldly.
"What did I tell you?" he sneered, shrugging his big shoulders. "We'll get even with him on his next volume. But you know, Labarthe, as long as you continue to have that innocent look about you, you can't expect to succeed in newspaper work."
