True Fiction Quotes

“Ian had always suspected that the happiest day of a survivalist’s life would be the one when the world ended. Now he knew it was true.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“The driver’s licenses weren’t the only things that had RFID chips in them. These days almost everything did, from breakfast cereal boxes to key chains.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“It also made the government secretly eager to go far beyond that, at least until Edward Snowden ruined things.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“someone whose idea of exercise was walking into McDonald’s rather than using the drive-through.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“This is a crazy world, Margo. Maybe you need t o be a little crazy to see it.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“We come to teach you a lesson, boy," Shitkicker #1 said, standing to Straker's right.

"It's we've come," Straker said. "Now I've just taught you a lesson.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“His bet was wrong. The reason was that the signal from the helmet cameras was being intentionally distorted at the source.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“The pictures were the only items in the file that weren’t complete fiction.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“Cross knew from reading the intelligence reports on her that in her private life she liked a more visceral experience, one that would make Christian Grey or the Marquis de Sade cower.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“system”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“The woman had a provocative, slightly bemused expression on her face that took on a new meaning with the hole in her forehead and the empty eye socket. Instead of saying “Fuck me,” her expression now seemed to be saying “Fuck you.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“Ian believed that all actors were crazy. They had to be if they were any good. The truly great ones had to have a manageable version of split personality disorder. How else could they pretend to be someone else so fully that we not only believe it but we invest ourselves emotionally in what they are experiencing?”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“It wasn’t guilt over taking a life that shook him up and it wasn’t because he was afraid of consequences he might face. It was the realization that he was something he wasn’t before. Before he was a screenwriter and an author. Now he was also a killer.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“Eventually, he drove through a cleft between two rocky hills, what Ronnie called “Mother Nature’s Glorious Cleavage,” into a hidden clearing where a ramshackle compound had been built.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“I’d be a covert operative whose top-secret mission is to make stuff up.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“Universal City Oakwood, a complex of furnished temporary-stay apartments on Barham Boulevard. The Oakwood was popular with businessmen, airline pilots and stewardesses, recently divorced fathers, and actors staying in LA for auditions, episodic guest shots, or movie shoots. Visiting assassins liked it, too. The best part of staying there was the sex. Unless you had leprosy, it was almost impossible not to get laid. And even then, your chances were still pretty good.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“professional,”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“She was a middle-aged white woman with big cheeks—front and rear—”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“played her body like an instrument,”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“good as sex.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“I’m a lesbian.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“carrying their suitcases.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“wasn’t nearly as high-tech as the one at Blackthorn’s headquarters.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“coins.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“not that anyone was actually keeping one.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“sweeping relaxation of civil liberties”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“He let go of the poker and scrambled away.”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“and got dressed”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“Because some dipshit left his car double-parked with the engine running while he ran into a building to do some dipshit errand,”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction

“spent most of her ten-year military career at a keyboard, directing drone strikes against terrorists. She’d killed more people from the comfort of a Herman Miller chair, with a Starbucks Cinnamon Dolce Latte in one hand, than most soldiers”
― Lee Goldberg, True Fiction