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“Welcome to my world. I’ve long considered paranoia to be a job requirement.”
“Does that mean I get to curse, get a tattoo, and say ‘hooah’?”
imagine if you had a soul instead of a big empty place in your chest.”
After Sarducci was kicked out, he was picked up by Blue Diamond Security.” “Ugh,” said Dietrich. “Those assholes.”
Church leaned forward and looked hard at me. “Sarducci threatened Circe?”
It’s weird, his expression did not really change, but somehow his blank face suddenly conveyed a degree of menace that I have seldom before experienced.
“Interesting,” he said softly.
“One of these days we’re going to find out that UFOs, Godzilla, and vampires are real, too. Sometimes I hate this job.” Aunt Sallie shared a private smile with Church, and we were welcome to make anything we wanted out of that. It made me wonder if something that Dietrich said hit a nerve.
Aunt Sallie grunted her approval, though she clearly found it difficult to believe that Captain Shortbus had thought it up.
“Hugo knew only as much about MindReader as I allowed him to know.” “Why? Were you suspicious of him before this?” “I’m suspicious of most people.”
Alesso shook hands with Church, who managed a convincing smile. I wish I had a photo of it. I could win bets with it.
It’s not like on the old Batman TV show, where bad guys wore shirts with HENCHMAN, THUG, and EVIL ASSISTANT stenciled on the chest. Would be pretty damn useful, though.
Was pain a finite thing, a line drawn in the mind that, once crossed, became an irrelevant concept?
you have to think that you’re vulnerable before you believe that you should run from danger.
“This is what humanity does when we all realize we are one family.”
On the bandstand, Taylor Swift had just finished her set and the audience was cheering and applauding as if the girl had walked on water.
For most people there is a gradual slide from courage to cowardice.
“Don’t … ,” she begged. Church ignored her. “Dad!”
Khalid said that Church seemed to know as much about emergency medicine as any doctor he’d met.
“What? You miserable bastard!” “Hey, call a spade a spade. Born out of wedlock and all that, what do you expect?”
The cold was okay. The fact that I was up here in the darkness of my room, in the darkness of my thoughts, was okay. The flame was still there. If this was who I was, and if it wasn’t for me to be part of the light, then maybe that was as it should be.
