City of Dreams

by Don Winslow

if I think I’m a worthless piece of shit, I can treat myself like a worthless piece of shit.

because the wounded find the wounded, washed up on the same sad shore.

A criminal thinks that if you offer him $200K for doing nothing, you must have a lot more money to spend, so he should stick around and tap into the main source. The criminal gets almost insulted that you’re offering him chump change