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"The only movement you'll be capable of is blinking. You won't even be able to scream as you feel the cutting and sawing and drilling. Our fingers inside of you. The surgery will take hours, and you will be awake and alert of every agonizing second of it. It's the stuff of horror fiction."

"Would you like to know why I'm not wearing a shirt, Sheriff?"

"Not particularly."

"At last their kiss broke, and he asked her a bit hoarsely, 'Are you ready for dinner?'

'Dessert,' she said and began to rotate her lower body slowly and sensuously against his groin and abdomen.

'But I promise you you don't have to eat anything you don't like.'"

"Gage was crawling in the grass, examining bugs, perhaps even eating a few. Gage was not particular where his protein came from."

"It's always good to have a little fear, son, especially at your age, he heard his mom say. Fear keeps you honest. Fear keeps you safe."

"The house was a tomb, a crypt of memories stale with history and secrets."

"The kitchen is no place for talk. Only gossip and food are made in kitchens."

"You could not explain fear; you could only feel it, roaring through the silence and striking your heart still."

"The illness painted demons around the room. She saw them clear as day, but they were not there. I sat beside her the whole time. None of it was there. Yet to her it was very very real."

"In this place of misrule, everything was upside down. The truth was mad, beyond the realms of any healthy imagination. And that was why the truth was the only thing guaranteed to keep her under lock and key."

"In this place of misrule, the truth was mad, beyond the realms of any healthy imagination. And that was why the truth was the only thing guaranteed to keep her under lock and key."

"Bone, after all, is the most lasting part of ourselves, able to speak to succeeding generations even after our voices have gone silent."

"The biological building material bone, evolved for outer protection before being co-opted for internal scaffolding. Bones evolved from the outside in. Our skeletons are sunken body armor.

"The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you."

"It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wish I could stop trying."

"Beauty gives a person power. And camouflage. "

"Well, that's Nam," he said. "Garden of evil. Over here, man, every sin's real fresh and original."

"Wilson twitched as lightning bleached the sky, washing its false daylight across the wing."

"In moving the corpse, there's always a chance there may be a sudden burst of "purge"...a frothy, reddish brown liquid expunged from the lungs and stomach."

"We pigs are brainworkers. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples."

"This blade give me no fear. It is a sharp medicine...a physician for all my diseases."
-Sir Walter Raleigh, October 16, 1618

"We'll see infections running rampant that won't kill but will weaken, leaving the victim open for the next round."

"Was he dead? Blood pooled under his body, the front of his pants wet, another stench added in, bladder and bowels having let go.

There seemed to be a flicker of eye movement. John aimed at the center of Larry's head, standing over him, and fired."

"Your enemy will never attack you where you are strongest...he will attack you where you are weakest. If you do not know your weakest point, be certain, your enemy will."

"The dead draw me from quite far by unknown labyrinths."

"The dead draw me from quite far by unknown labyrinths."

"I'm a legal vampire exterminator."

Can our narrative main character really be a fraudulent subversive?