“All my life, there had been a giant empty space, a huge existential void, that had needed to be filled by something, and I had never realized that that thing was the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, with its sleek red hot dog battering ram surrounded by a metal bun. It was like the Space Battleship Yamato made of bread and pork, made of metal. This MIT student named Matt had been souping up the Wienermobile with a high-performance electric engine and all-terrain wheels, just saving it for the right occasion. Somehow, Janelle had convinced Matt that our little adventure was it. The tires were the perfect mud color to match the lower part of the chassis, which Matt had rescued from a scrap yard in Burlington.”
― Rock Manning Goes for Broke
― Rock Manning Goes for Broke
“That's when I realized that as long as you don't broadcast your beefs, you can get away cold with murder. It's even better if you don't allow the beef to take place. If someone disrespects you, you can know in your heard that you're going to get him, but you don't have to show him there's a beef. You can just look at it like, Okay, this nigga must not know. And then you fall back and you put it down.”
― From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens
― From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens
“Is that what you want? To stagger around the afterlife blind and eye-fucked?”
― Gestapo Mars
― Gestapo Mars
“After I murder everyone in this room, I plan to eat them cannibal style and use their bones to build a scale model of a Viking longboat.”
― Gestapo Mars
― Gestapo Mars
“All much valued education of Pavel, all skill and experience, every memories, dreams for glory, regrets, affection and loathing, education of history events and trigonometry equation, entire personality with identity, all of these blasted. All skill and talents. Past and future. All meticulous plan and training and practice. Pulverized and shattered. All former joy and sorrow made steaming gray meatloaf, evicted from skull out exit wound.”
― Pygmy
― Pygmy
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