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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a73a863 | Why not? You've already interrupted my work." "Sorry about that, but here's the deal. I want to talk to the players in the case, but I have no cover story and no bargaining power. I can hardly pass myself off as a reporter." "Sure you can," she said. "People are more interested in talking than you'd think. I see it all the time when I'm trolling for interviews. Here's the trick. Imply you have the information and you're looking for confirma.. | Sue Grafton | ||
| bf14dca | It looks like Wendell sailed the boat as far as Winterset and then headed out toward the islands. He left the sails up. There was no big sea running, but with the storms coming through, the normal northwesterlies were countered by the hurricane effect. The Lord probably has a seven-knot hull speed, and with the right puff of wind it should have gone much farther. When they found the boat, it was stalled and drifting. The jib was backwinded,.. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 2ca1102 | What I've noticed though is that any attempt to trim out the dark matter takes away some of the good that was also buried in the muck. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 141882a | Really, the boys reminded me of puppies playing tug-of-war with an old sock. The | Sue Grafton | ||
| 44eb9fa | envied. I gathered they'd just returned from some kind of bridge-oriented cruise in which baby slams and gourmet foods were served up in equal measure. Much talk of no-trump, double finesses, and Sheinwold, whose strategies they were | Sue Grafton | ||
| a492a85 | As usual, when confronted with heights, my greatest fear was the irresistible urge to fling myself off. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 7975cda | We live in a society piously concerned about the rights of criminals when their victims' lives have been trashed without any consideration of the price in pain and suffering. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 42261fa | Sayss | Sue Grafton | ||
| cda3910 | influenced, and I'd be corrupting his | Sue Grafton | ||
| be321e4 | same cup he always carried, his perpetual bourbon and Coke. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 290d90e | if only she hadn't agreed to wear the pink pajamas there in the Mercer Hotel. Because once I saw her in them, I loved her in the same way I love my sister, which is an impasse of the truly impassable sort. | Rick Moody | ||
| 902f233 | And so I replied, "You just don't know the right kind of motivational speakers!" And she: "Top answer! Top answer!" (Posted 3/3/2012)" | Rick Moody | ||
| e89f695 | Maybe it was more than this. Maybe the bond that forms between people doesn't get unmade so easily. Maybe it leaves its mark for a long time. | Rick Moody | ||
| 8916eb9 | There should be a sex-related metric with which you could measure sex in hotels, especially the illicit variety, but of what would that metric consist? How about increments of remorse? | sex | Rick Moody | |
| c47da68 | Linda cranked the greatest hits of heartbreak and we sat down on the carpeted floor to listen. I missed you. | Rick Moody | ||
| f926cb2 | circumambulate | Rick Moody | ||
| 8ac7346 | If one of them wanted to go to bed well before the other one wanted to go to bed, who could object, because the day would come when they could retreat back to rugged individualism, it was right there waiting to be re-employed, and so staggered shifts should not be interpreted as some kind of loss, some kind of giving up. | Rick Moody | ||
| e6827b5 | It may be one of the most beautiful hotels in the entire world. Were you to discount hotels that are constructed primarily to house sheikhs--hotels that will never house you or me--you would have to conclude that this was a truly remarkable place. | Rick Moody | ||
| 5808eb2 | There should be a way to test this, there should be a sex-related metric with which you could measure sex in hotels, especially the illicit variety, but of what would that metric consist? | Rick Moody | ||
| 738a3d1 | Which man among us is not, most of the time, possessed of the desire to curl himself into a foetal ball? | Rick Moody | ||
| 5c0ef16 | There are men who need to defile themselves in order to get on with their lives. | Rick Moody | ||
| ef0153c | Would ectoplasm be considered an amenity? As I have said, I personally define an amenity as a specific and unexpected add-on to the hotel experience. | Rick Moody | ||
| c063fa1 | The middle is the longest in any story, and therefore the time with the most desperation. | Rick Moody | ||
| d62850c | He was a psychologist, and degrees in psychology, I find, often conceal deviant tendencies. | Rick Moody | ||
| d3384ec | As you may have noticed, here we were living in a Swedish car in the parking lot of a Swedish mega-retailer. | Rick Moody | ||
| e9a4fb1 | Isn't a tangle of limbs a glorious thing to behold? Don't you wish to be in a tangle of limbs? | tangles | Rick Moody | |
| a81ba21 | I was bent on love the way a crow is bent on a flattened squirrel. | Rick Moody | ||
| e771d44 | There were just enough flaws to make her perfect. | perfect | Rick Moody | |
| 05b7656 | Demagnetizing is a fact of life. | Rick Moody | ||
| 0413095 | There was probably some kind of anti-compulsive psychiatric medication liberally added to this trucked-in gross of cookies so that people like me, who could not stop eating the cookies once they were offered, would not continuously sneak down to the lobby in the soul-slaughtering hours between two and four a.m. to steal six at a time, finishing most of them before getting back to the room. | Rick Moody | ||
| 75c9888 | there are times when no matter what we do, despite our best efforts--it's not often but it can happen--very occasionally we are going to let you down. | Rick Moody | ||
| 06e2615 | we broke the complimentary cookie obtained in the lobby into small pieces and flung it over the fence of the Indonesian embassy, thinking that the scheming and warlike Indonesians were probably out at the time, and in the event that the Indonesians had not fed their local squirrels. | Rick Moody | ||
| 897c92d | I have found on occasion that the Italians are suspicious of the benefits of air-conditioning. Or skeptical, or resistant, or oblivious to the benefits of air-conditioning. | Rick Moody | ||
| 6bc60ee | Some people like a bidet, but Mrs. Salk said she does not want to shoot water up herself from a spigot that others have also used. | Rick Moody | ||
| 6ab4f43 | That cigar-chomping hemorrhoidal bigot who sits astride the riding mower on the two and a quarter acres beside you, he is smart enough to spend his IRA on this stock, so why can't you? Do you want him to have something you do not? | Rick Moody | ||
| b0df438 | One time I took the swing shift just to get away from her for a few weeks, I just filled in for this guy who had a back injury, and I came home when no one was awake, and then I'd just take some sleeping pills and drink a few beers. Everyone had a good laugh. | Rick Moody | ||
| d63f764 | there would be no surprises, and the Jacuzzi was just a big bathtub with a few extra jets of water, loud enough that it could cover over just about any cries of despair. (Posted 9/8/2012) | Rick Moody | ||
| 2d66283 | When you're starved for this kind of contact, a little goes a long way. | Rick Moody | ||
| 35cf1c8 | Being right and being happy are on opposite ends of this dance that is the life of human machines. | life-quotes | Rick Moody | |
| 435192a | Deviants and losers and mutants and the loveless...were the proper readers of Marvel comics. | Rick Moody | ||
| 98b39d8 | A bed is where a sense of shared purpose first takes root. | purpose shared | Rick Moody | |
| 7a29a24 | I noted too that I had on many occasions spoken on the subject of the pollution of the spirit (or so I told them), and how the spirit should not be polluted, and how I personally looked askance at, for instance, a latte. | Rick Moody | ||
| 712c6c1 | To summarize, these are the three main problems of bed-and-breakfast establishments: throw pillows, potpourri, and breakfast conversation, and the fourth problem is gazebos. And the fifth problem is water features. And the sixth problem is themed rooms, and the seventh problem is provenance (who owned the inn before and who owned the inn before that, and who owned it before that, and what year the bed-and-breakfast was built, and how old th.. | Rick Moody | ||
| c832f38 | I was suffering with profound personality change, and if I had to go out onto the highway and stick out my thumb and secure a ride to a Waffle House in order to consume grits in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, I would go to a Waffle House, leaving behind the unwanted back hair and the expanding belt lines and the godforsaken cheese grits to make of myself a person of the road, a person of the highway, a person of indeterminate location. You could get .. | Rick Moody |