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“A black Mercedes Benz 450 SL pulled up. It was your classic hood auto beloved of terrorists, pimps and African dictators.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground

“We drank our whiskeys. It was the good stuff and it tasted of salt, sea, rain, wind and the Old Testament.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground

“Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.”
― Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know

“Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.”
― Laura Lippman, The Most Dangerous Thing

“Oh, we had a lot of sex back then in Montreal; it wasn’t just me. Blame it on the cold. The roses in everyone’s cheeks made them seem way more appealing than they actually were. We confused the indoors with intimacy and electric heating with connection.”
― Heather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night

“Canada is not the party. Its the apartment above the party.”
― craig ferguson

“We would drive to Canada, where it would probably be legal for us to get married- it was Canada where they let people do whatever they wanted because it was too cold to bother stopping them.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, Emory's Gift

“It used to be that the longest unprotected border in the world was that between the United States and Canada. Today it's the one between fact and fiction. If the two cozy up any closer together The National Enquirer will be out of business.”
― Stacy Schiff