Duma Key
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Read between January 14 - February 1, 2025
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“I been fucked to the east and I been fucked to the west,” Wireman recited in tones of sentimental recollection, “but when it comes to the fuckin, yo mamma’s the best.”
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like you, Edgar. You got style, you got class, you got the lips to kiss my ass.”
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I’m busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest…
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you can lead a whore to culture, but you can’t make her think.
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“Ah! And what did you say?” “Not having a good lawyer present, I was reduced to the truth.”
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If there’s a God, I think He needs to try a little harder.
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was tired of floating through the world like a balloon tethered three feet over my own head.” “I know the feeling,” I said. “I know you do. We checked into hell on different shifts, you and me. And out again, I suppose, although my heels are still smoking. How about yours?”
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We’re like a bunch of cab-drivers trying to deliver a baby.”
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With Lin, it was impossible to tell which way a joke was going to go, because her sense of humor was as unreliable as an April afternoon.
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“Enough!” Dario cried cheerily, striking fresh terror into my pounding heart and sending a cramp rolling through my miserable basement regions—terror above, barely held-in shit below. What a lovely combination.
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The loss of memory isn’t always the problem; sometimes—maybe even often—it’s the solution.
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“Sorry,” he said. “I don’t usually lose someone I love and poke a candlestick in a vampire’s face in the same week. Usually it’s one or the other.”
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That was the last time we spoke, and neither of us knew. We never know, do we? At least we ended by exchanging our love. I have that. It’s not much, but it’s something. Others have it worse. I tell myself that on the long nights when I can’t sleep. Others have it worse.
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the only way to go on is to go on. To say I can do this even when you know you can’t.
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Abyssus abyssum invocat. “Any idea what that means?” I asked Wireman. “Indeed I do. It’s a warning often given to new lawyers after they pass their bar exams. The liberal translation is ‘One misstep leads to another.’ The literal translation is ‘Hell invokes Hell.’ ”