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“Candy Crush Saga. Nondigital surveillance is weaponized boredom.”
“Lust is a universal language.”
― My Government Means to Kill Me
― My Government Means to Kill Me
“A name, she thinks, is what makes a person who they are. A name is how they know themself.”
― Spear
― Spear
“He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.”
― Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History
― Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History
“What the doctors didn’t tell me was how much I would change while watching her suffer. I shouldn’t be so surprised, though. Each thing we love takes a little piece of us whether we give it willingly or not. By the time we find the person we were meant to be with, we’re a honeycombed shell of what we once were. Each person we love turns us into the strange thing we become.”
― The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories
― The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories
“Don’t be bloody silly. We’re out of touch. They’ve got a whole new language. And line managers. And bloody Human Resources instead of a perfectly decent Personnel Department. And focus groups instead of getting on with the job.”
― Silverview
― Silverview
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