The Bitter Past Quotes

“For the first time, he could see how this “accident” would happen. When the balloon was over the city, the explosion would be triggered remotely. There would be no huge fireball, no mushroom cloud like what the town’s residents had witnessed from their rooftops countless times. No, this detonation would be tiny by comparison but sufficient enough to crack the plutonium core and spew perhaps the most deadly element on earth across the valley below, an invisible mist spreading through the open air, poisoning thousands as they unwittingly inhaled the radioactive particles into their lungs, killing them in miserable ways over the next weeks and months and making the area uninhabitable for the rest of man’s time on earth.”
― Bruce Borgos, The Bitter Past

“Correct. Hey, do you know what the penalty is for polygamy?” Before she can answer, I do. “Two mothers-in-law.”
― Bruce Borgos, The Bitter Past

“Wardell surveys the living room, scowling like one of the bad guys that gets killed at the end of every episode of Bonanza or Gunsmoke.”
― Bruce Borgos, The Bitter Past

“Wardell surveys the living room, scowling like one of the bad guys that gets killed at the end of every episode of Bonanza or Gunsmoke. “What do you think happened here, professor?” he asks. I swear I’m looking forward to his retirement as eagerly as a nun getting ready to leave the convent. “Something … else.” I wander outside to check the exterior of the home. I recall seeing it under construction, wondering who would want a place this far out in the sticks, set in front of the vast Big Rocks”
― Bruce Borgos, The Bitter Past

“Tuffy is meticulous. She’s built more like Dick Butkus than Dick Tracy,”
― Bruce Borgos, The Bitter Past