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An Unreliable Truth (Desert Plains, #3) An Unreliable Truth by Victor Methos
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“She was amazed at how many people couldn’t stand silence. They would rather fill the silence with nonsensical rambling than tolerate it for more than a few seconds.”
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“Listen to me, boy. If you think a rich man’s gold is going to bring you happiness, then I haven’t taught you a damn thing.” The words surprised him, and he sat silently, trying to figure out if what she had said was what she actually meant. She tried to sit more upright and grunted as she did so. “Money don’t solve anything, son. It covers up problems for a while, but they’re still your problems. They ain’t goin’ nowhere ’cause you got a fancy car.”
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“he cheated on his wife with her sister. You believe that? Her sister? I think I’d cut his frank ’n’ beans off if my man did that. You’re not a cheater, are you? ’Cause I won’t hook up with a cheater.” “You should probably not mention cutting frank ’n’ beans off before telling someone you want to hook up with them.”
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“I can’t imagine anything worse. Just sitting around waiting to die without any plans for anything.”
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“There’s another need you forgot.” “And what’s that?” “The need for immortality. No one wants this life to be it. That we all just turn into a pile of dust, and none of it meant anything. We want to believe we can be immortal. What if taking credit for this is Arlo’s way of getting immortality? People will dissect and analyze what he claims he did forever, and he knows it. It gives him an incentive to take credit.”
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“there’s three human needs we’re all trying to fill. The need for intimacy, safety, and a sense of belonging. If we’re not getting these needs met through normal means, we’ll find other ways to do it. Ways that are barbaric but may seem perfectly rational to the person doing them.”
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“There’s horror in the world, but that doesn’t make it a bad place. We only like the sunshine because there’s rain.”
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“You’re impressed because men will always believe two things about a woman: that she’s weak, and that she’s attracted to him. I’m neither.”
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