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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.”
like you, Edgar. You got style, you got class, you got the lips to kiss my ass.”
I’m busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest…
you can lead a whore to culture, but you can’t make her think.
“Ah! And what did you say?” “Not having a good lawyer present, I was reduced to the truth.”
If there’s a God, I think He needs to try a little harder.
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?”
We’re like a bunch of cab-drivers trying to deliver a baby.”
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.
“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.
The loss of memory isn’t always the problem; sometimes—maybe even often—it’s the solution.
“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.”
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.
the only way to go on is to go on. To say I can do this even when you know you can’t.
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.’ ”