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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 75ef596 | It means the faction found us." He looks around again. "How?" "How the fuck do I know? Spy satellites? Facial recognition pigeons on the freeway signs? Ballerinas with Uzis? What does it matter? Just hit the fucking accelerator." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 70f61f4 | don't tell me who to kill and when. It unsettles my tranquil disposition. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| d7dc4da | Are we in danger?" he says. "It depends on what you mean by 'we.'" "Am I in danger?" "That's the first smart thing anyone's said to me today. And, yes, you really are. So do what I tell you." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| eef1529 | Cops are generally color-blind when it comes to brown cars, and this Subaru is too boring for even a soccer mom. It looks like it was made for people into competitive tire filling. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| b7d46d8 | I wonder if this is one of those things they call a "teachable moment." What it's supposed to teach me, I have no idea." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| de4dedf | Anyway, there's nothing at all humiliating about clutching ten pounds of ice like your firstborn while the damn bag leaks all over your crotch so it looks like you pissed yourself with joy. I crack open another beer to celebrate fatherhood and keep reminding myself that I'm doing this for Candy. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| fe898d9 | And if I do live, I don't know if my body is ever going to be right again. I mean, even if I figure out what Ludovico's Ellicit is and get cured, I might look like Freddy Krueger's foreskin forever. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| a3d1420 | What do you want me to do?" says Kasabian. "I don't think Howard can get out of the bedroom, but if he does . . ." "I know. Punch him in the balls." "You got it." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 9e80619 | I walk to a shadow and put the bills in my pocket. "Don't wait up." "I don't want you coming back drunk," says Sandoval. "Don't worry. I'll look pretty for class pictures tomorrow." -- | Richard Kadrey | ||
| f0583d9 | The necromancer is the Blue Fairy to my Pinocchio and I want to be a real boy again. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 8bd32fb | Up ahead, Donut Universe shines like the Virgin Mary doing barrel rolls over Lourdes, so I head over. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| a475b82 | The smell that hits me is almost overwhelming. Familiar and alien at the same time. Hellion food tastes like what a butcher shop throws in the trash and then a hobo sleeps on it for a couple of days. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| fc664fa | She smiles and says, "Welcome back," like she means it, and it kind of breaks my heart. She's nice. I forgot what that's like. I try to smile back at her, but I'm not sure I'm getting it right. I mean, my face does something. Whether it's a smile or not is up to her. The good news is that when she brings me my order she doesn't pepper-spray me. That's a beginning. I feel like a kid on his first date, proud he didn't spill whiskey on his gir.. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| d840516 | This is for you, Cherie." I can't help but smile when I see her. This is a taste of the old Bamboo House of Dolls. A clueless tourist slumming in a weirdo bar and he picks up a pretty young thing. Only his paramour is a Jade and if he does or says the wrong thing, she's going to bite him and drink his guts like a milkshake. I'm almost tempted to tell him, only then he starts singing that Barry Manilow song "Mandy," but substituting "Cherie".. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| e00de3a | They're a year closer and I'm on the street like a goddamn lost dog wondering if I'll ever find my way back home. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 7e8d7b8 | A picture whether or not it is really true to fact must above all things appear true. | Alfred Horsley Hinton | ||
| 5ae33dc | A feminine voice from my other side says, "Don't look at him. Look at me." I turn back around. She's tall. Long torso, legs, and arms. In her spare time she could be a fashion model or a basketball player. Smart. Tall is good for these situations. It lets the interrogator loom menacingly. She's wearing the same suit and balaclava as the guys who snatched me. That's okay. What isn't okay is the cattle prod she's holding. She takes her time c.. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 843a6b7 | When she shocks me this time, it's on the inside of my thigh, close enough to my balls to make them consider finding work elsewhere. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| efdd113 | Is that supposed to impress me? You sound like every supervillain in every comic book ever written. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| b5d9efb | I sit on the end of the bed, trying to look as nonlethal as an extra from Night of the Living Dead can. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 0dda617 | I say, "How do I look?" "Like a pail of manure dragged down a bumpy road and dumped into a river of puke," says a familiar voice from behind me." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| d400a9a | I say, "The Elmer Gantry act is very convincing, but why pretend you're Wormwood? That doesn't make any sense." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| a3b1bc7 | Wells points at me like P. T. Barnum showing off the dog-faced boy to the masses. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 4f5e981 | I hurt like I just climbed out of a cement mixer, and the shot that grazed my side burns like hell. But I don't have time to whine right now. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 0b238d0 | As I step out of the van, blood flows out the door in a mini-waterfall--think an elevator-in-The Shining level of blood. I look at myself in the van's side mirror. In my bloody suit, I look like the maitre d' at a Texas Chainsaw cookout. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 6a19dab | Then don't tell me who to kill and when. It unsettles my tranquil disposition. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| ce0a2d7 | At least your absence wasn't eleven years like your last trip. How was your time in Le Merdier?" "Dusty. There was a judge down there. He spoke more languages and was crazier than you. If I live, I'll tell you all about it." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 49b1e92 | He coughs wetly and wipes his mouth with a monogrammed hankie. When he's done I say, "What kind of event?" "Stupendous," says Sandoval. "Cataclysmic." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 54929ba | I whisper some hoodoo and put on the glamour I used last night. Again, Sinclair and the roaches are startled. To Sandoval's credit, she just looks me over like she's selecting which lobster in the tank to eat for dinner. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 3d5d64b | I want you to be there." "Why, Faith?" "Because that painting was the first one I painted for me in a very long time. And you're the first thing I've done for me in a very long time." | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 0a12e4b | Sweetheart, if a box of chocolate and some flowers win you over, then you weren't ever mine to start with. But you are mine. He just doesn't know it yet. - Nick | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 017a2f8 | I moan with his words, with the boldness of this man, with the ease at which he can spin my world around and drive me wild. I am close to the sweet spot, moving against his hand, arching into his touch, | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| ab9b220 | You can embrace who you really are, and we can be whoever we want to be together." My gut clenches at the reference to the way my" | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 619a04f | know I'll never fully control her, and the very thing that would have made her wrong for me in the past is the very thing that makes her what I want and need now. She is freedom. She is passion. She is the safe place where I can be the man I've tried to deny beneath the Master persona, and failed. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 73e6765 | her, she's become such a part of my life that no matter how I fight it, or her, she's in my blood--a part of why I exist. Yet so is Rebecca. I don't understand it, and I do not like things that I don't understand. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| d40525d | I have that sense of connection with her. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| d6a3461 | My fingers curl on his cheek, and all self-consciousness is gone, forgotten. "I'm not afraid of whatever you're talking about. I think you keep warning me away because you're the one who's afraid." | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 997ad3e | Maybe he's right. Maybe I am playing with fire, but I cannot stop myself. Beyond reason, I will push him until he reveals everything. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 8691866 | I just gave you permission to fuck me, but be clear: I'm not another notch on your belt. You're a notch on mine. | sex | Lisa Renee Jones | |
| dc8df8c | Your staying or leaving doesn't impact the premise of your demand, which seems to be that I have no control over myself. That's wrong. I decide who destroys me, not you, Mark Compton. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 4b72736 | True confidence means you're prepared to work hard enough and smart enough to make your own thunder. You don't need someone else's. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| e5436e6 | unreadable. "I've always said my mother is the biggest bitch on the hill, and the kindest flower in the garden." | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 931ddea | You use arrogance and control to hide the real you. But I've seen you. I know you. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 0536989 | Then he says, "In a way, no one else has. No one." | Lisa Renee Jones |