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One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.
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romance
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Charlie Huston |
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fa85998
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Things are as bad as you fear they are. People are as bad as you think they are. The Universe does not care.
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Charlie Huston |
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091c699
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For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and judgement, and, over time, dismantles, from within, the body.
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sleep
sleepless
sleeplessness
insomnia
terror
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Charlie Huston |
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c41a13e
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Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.
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Charlie Huston |
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1c78813
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He has one of those heads people think about cutting off." "Yes. He does."
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Charlie Huston |
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d38c4a9
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I feel like I'm forgetting something. Vyrus. Clans. Zombies. Stay out of the sun. Don't get shot. Abandon your life. Drink blood to survive. No, guess that pretty much covers it.
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Charlie Huston |
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5838ad3
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It's not that fact of him telling me he's not going to kill me that assures me I've got some time to breathe. Predo could look me in the eye and tell me whiskey's good and cigarettes are better and I'd still need a drink and a Lucky to believe he's not lying. The man breeds lies. He spawns them asexually, with no need for any assistance. He exhales and lies fill the air. Alone in a room, he mutters lies to himself to keep from falling into ..
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Charlie Huston |
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4d20897
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Yeah, good to see you too. Her hand stays on the gun. "Did I say it was good to see you, Joe? "No, but I always try to read between the lines. Figured you going for your gun was how you express affection these days."
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Charlie Huston |
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62e57d4
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What's inside is inside for a reason. What's hidden is hidden for a reason. What's buried is buried for a reason.
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Charlie Huston |
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71b7656
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Like I was ever normal. Like I was ever any different from how I am now. A cure won't make me better. It'll just make me more like a regular son of a bitch. Like the Vyrus makes you into something else. It doesn't. If you get it, if you survive, it's because you were already the kind of person who will drink blood.
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Charlie Huston |
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8874cee
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Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.
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pain
strength
endure
ignore
mom
mother
power
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Charlie Huston |
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2eb29c2
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The world doesn't just jump out of its axis on its own.
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Charlie Huston |
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29571f8
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Not that I have any little kids running around I need to keep away from the guns. I had any kids I'd get rid of the guns. Nothing more dangerous to the life of a child than a house full of firearms. Nothing more dangerous except maybe a parent.
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Charlie Huston |
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61c5487
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You can't change the world if your motive is revenge. Vibes like that just aren't productive.
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Charlie Huston |
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547a455
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Tell them to drop their guns and fuck off out of my way. --Allow him to-- I clamp my arm tight. --That's not what I said. She gets it right this time. --Drop your guns and fuck off out of his way. They drop their guns and fuck off out of my way.
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Charlie Huston |
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fb4464c
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You are going to die in front of dozens of witnesses, and none of them will do a thing to help you or avenge you. Because they know exactly what you know: The world is ending.
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murder
end-of-the-world
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Charlie Huston |
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71d51b1
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Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing, but justice and ethics were inflexible measures, applicable to all, and not to be joked about.
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morality
philosophy
universality
justice
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Charlie Huston |
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e7e3b6f
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She makes a stone-face, drops her voice an octave. -No. No. No. My name is Joe Pitt and I don't do nuthin' I don't want to do and I won't even listen because I don't know a good thing when I have it and I'd rather be all fucked up and tragic and go hurt people.
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Charlie Huston |
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cc8bcca
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Think about a night like that often enough, you'll ask yourself a lot of questions. Most of them about yourself. The kind of person you are. What you'll do and why and when you'll do it. What you believe in. What you really believe in.
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Charlie Huston |
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3b404e2
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The man breeds lies. He spawns them asexually, with no need for any assistance. He exhales and lies fill the air. Alone in a room, he mutters lies to himself to keep from falling into the trap of truth-telling. In the day, sleeping in his bed, deep in the safest heart of Coalition headquarters, he dreams in lies. The better to keep his left hand from knowing what betrayals his right has planned.
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Charlie Huston |
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c9dc346
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The enforcer takes an envelope from his side jacket pocket and drops it in one of the scummy puddles. I look at Predo. "You rehearse that move in advance? He shrugs. "Actually, not. This one has initiative."
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Charlie Huston |
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ddb8ad2
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It's a puzzler, and I don't want to sound full of myself, but I may just be the Vyrus messiah." He shakes his head. "I don't know for sure. Have to meditate on that shit some more. Anyhoo."
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Charlie Huston |
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ef118fc
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She reaches up and ties the strip of black cloth so that it covers my dead eye. "Now, go Arrghh. "Arrghh. She nods. "There. You're a pirate."
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Charlie Huston |
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e604c4c
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Most undercover cops are vastly skilled at compartmentalization. It is a talent as valued as lying. They seal off their real feelings and create imitation emotions. Easily torn down when it's time to show the badge, drag someone downtown, and sit across from him in an interrogation cell and tell him how fucked he is now.
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criminal
imitation
cops
fake
emotions
interrogation
police
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Charlie Huston |
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70010aa
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and look down the glowing store front of a 24 hr bodega. I am not overly concerned about going in there with one bare foot and a considerable amount of dried blood on my clothing. This is the Bronx after all. But best to minimize the visual impact I might make."
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Charlie Huston |
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564ba33
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At Marcy I spot what I am looking for and shimmy up a lampost and untangle the pair of sneakers that some kid has tossed up there that dangle in testement to some shit that I have never figured out as long as I have lived in this city. I sit on the curb and stuff my feet inside leaving the laces undone. There too small but the right one fits a little better than the left. Not having a big toe is already paying off.
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Charlie Huston |
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80a0a96
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Don't make me come out there and spray you, blanco. I point at my one eye. "Better have some sharpshooter fucking aim you want that shit to do any good."
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Charlie Huston |
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cc8c0d6
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I could flay you and wear your skin as a cloak, and caper in the streets in the moonlight. But some might consider that crass treatment of a guest." I nod. "Well, some people got no sense of humor, do they?" "I am one of those people."
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Charlie Huston |
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fd5649f
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Sunt, dupa standartele omenirii, in toate mintile. E adevarat ca am ceva manii, dar nu frizeaza nebunia.
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Charlie Huston |
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15998d7
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There something I can do to get this over with quick? Like, can I just run in front of a cab and take my lumps and we call it even? As opposed to you cutting off my nose and all, I mean.
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Charlie Huston |
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b17e892
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Or maybe this is the true order. To bring together the need with the thind that is needed.
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Charlie Huston |
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053283c
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And a realization for Skinner, she still has his scarf, inside her mountaineering jacket, red wool at her neck. Some meaning there related to the kiss, but in a code he cannot unscramble. A tether is what it feels like, his scarf around her neck, preventing either of them from falling off the mountain alone.
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Charlie Huston |
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46a8633
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That's what happens when you get a regular job, other people's shit becomes your problem. 'Course, by the time you got that figured, it's up around your ears and you're just trying to keep your fucking mouth shut.
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Charlie Huston |
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8e88aea
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I size him up. A pasty jumble of limbs in latex-tight sharkskin slacks with three inches of white socks showing at the ankles above two-tone patent leather, a jacket matching the slacks stretched over narrow shoulders and an embroidered cowboy shirt with silver caps on the points of the collar, a bolo tie featuring a cockroach frozen in amber snug around his throat.
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Charlie Huston |
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d19a9ef
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The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.
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civilization
culture
mediocrity
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charlie huston |
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1591faf
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Ca oameni, nu facem decat sa ne prezentam. Compunem imaginea pe care vrem s-o vada ceilalti si speram ca ei au s-o citeasca asa cum am scris-o noi. Toata lumea face asta.
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Charlie Huston |
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f8d3340
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Everything hurts. People are talking in the halls, but no one seems to be evacuating the building. This is the nature of New York City: alarms go off so often that no one wants to respond to them until things start burning down or blowing up in front of their eyes.
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Charlie Huston |