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“The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.”
― NOS4A2
― NOS4A2
“All I can say is what you already know: some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life there are a few. That was one of mine, and when I'm blue -- when life comes down on me and everything looks tawdry and cheap, the way Joyland Avenue did on a rainy day -- I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they are precious.”
― Joyland
― Joyland
“When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect that you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.”
― Joyland
― Joyland
“We’re supposed to be doing the devil’s work and you’ve gone and contaminated it all with the whiff of virtue. I really don’t think you’ve quite got the hang of being an agent of evil.”
― Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
― Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
“If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
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