John Lange > Quotes

“Give me librium or give me meth!” anon.”
― John Lange, Drug of Choice

“all religions are confusing," nikos said. "that's how the priests stay in business.”
― John Lange, Easy Go

“My grandpappy used to say that people who loved each other fought in order to avoid intimacy.”
― John Lange, Easy Go

“Remember Edouardo? Remember what happened to him when he tried to—” “Edouardo. Edouardo was a fool.” “Yes, but the way he died …” “It does not matter, how you die.” “But those cuts. What could have done it?” “It does not matter,” the other man insisted. He nodded to the”
― John Lange, Zero Cool

“number. “What is it?” Raynaud said. Pierce laughed. “Want to see the best whorehouse in London?” “I don’t know,” Raynaud said, standing alongside the car, swaying. He felt very, very drunk.”
― John Lange, The Venom Business

“It is better to live rich than to die rich. SAMUEL JOHNSON”
― John Lange, Grave Descend

“was written before it became too embarrassing for the Republican party to hold its 1972 convention in San Diego, and I preferred not to follow the convention to Miami Beach.”
― John Lange, Binary

“Directly beneath him was a branch-coral formation like a giant hand reaching upward for the surface. To the left was a hole in the coral, perhaps a foot in diameter. McGregor hung in the water and waited. He did not like sticking his hands into coral pockets. At the very least, you were likely to meet up with a crab; at worst, a moray eel. He had learned long ago that in the hierarchy of things for men to fear in tropical waters, morays were the worst. Barracuda came a far second, and sharks third. The morays grew as long as ten feet, and they were vicious.”
― John Lange, Grave Descend

“unctuously”
― John Lange, Odds On

“I drink only vodka,” Levett said, pouring clear liquid from a crystal decanter. “And only Russian vodka. It is by far the most healthful of liquors. Colorless and pure—do you know what goes into Scotch?” “No,” McGregor said. He was handed a glass of vodka without ice. “Fusel oil, wood extracts, formalin, a little benzene. That is what gives it its color. Bourbon is worse. Rum, though colorless, is wildly impure and exerts a dreadful effect upon the nervous system. It contains paranitrophenol. Quite nasty.”
― John Lange, Grave Descend

“he had never found anyone who knew what the name”
― John Lange, Scratch One

“Being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of being drowned. —samuel johnson”
― John Lange, Grave Descend

“checked his gauge; it was twenty-five feet. His beam had still not reached the bottom. He went down, with the receiver around his neck beeping louder and louder. The ocean around him was noisy. It was something you noticed on a night dive—the sea was alive with night creatures, eating and clicking with a strange, almost mechanical sound, like a giant bank of electronic relays far off.”
― John Lange, Grave Descend