Devil Red (Hap and Leonard #8)
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Read between May 23 - May 25, 2021
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The scream Thomas let out crawled up my back and nestled at the top of my skull and took a shit.
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A man who was old enough for reading glasses should have a job in some place air-conditioned and his most violent activity should be sliding his zipper down.
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Harder to be a vampire when you have to be nice to customers and earn a paycheck.”
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I was once told by an army buddy that anyone killed someone had some kind of hole in them, even if they felt the person killed needed to be killed. Because on some level, human beings identify with other human beings to such an extent they start to see themselves as the dead human. You may be okay for a while, but in time, those things you do, things you’ve seen, they come home to roost, like pterodactyls.”
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One of the women who worked there was overweight and frumpy with pissblonde hair that looked to have been made by electricity and a sense of humor.
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I’m simple enough about the matter to consider that if I’m doing something to protect someone or make their life better, and I have the ability to do it, and I’m going to feel good about myself afterward, that’s what I do.”
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Soon as we were seated a thin waitress who looked as if it would be all right with her if everyone who ever wanted to eat in a restaurant was dead, arrived and took our coffee orders and went away.