Dave

“Is that… normal?” “No,” she replied. “Murder is not normal. You can’t go around killing your own people. Not very often, anyway.” “Not very often?” “It happens,” she shrugged. “What nation never deals in death? All states kill. Soldiers fight. If a judge says ‘OK,’ you can kill anybody. But sometimes a sovereign does not wish for her killing to be seen. There are some good reasons. But if that becomes normal, you have a bigger problem.”
― D.C. McElroy, Chene

“He was the man to whom our order turned when scandal or threat appeared, and he’d risen to this unique station by virtue of the fact that he remained happily unburdened by hint of scruple.”
― D.C. McElroy, Chene

“People like arguing about abstractions. Makes them feel clever. Law is the only abstraction that results in profit. So it pays the bills.”
― D.C. McElroy, Chene

“The Lesson Factory was like the Walmart of guitar lessons. It was connected to the Guitar Center and inside there were about ten soundproof cubicles, each equipped with two chairs and two amplifiers and your very own defeated musician recruited off Craigslist”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart