Jem Matzan > Quotes

“No back doors! I had a back door, but every fucker who thought he was bad wouldn't use the front door because everyone knows that if you're bad, you slip out through the back. I boarded it up - use the front door like everybody else.”
― Jem Matzan, The Hero

“You killed a horse!"
My voice was still rough and low. "Well... he shouldn't 've been carrying you.”
― Jem Matzan, The Hero

“Halleck is not an Israeli name, it’s an American name. Well, I mean if some woman in Israel happened to name her kid Halleck at some point in history, then I guess the argument for being an Israeli name could be made on a technicality, but it’s not ethnically Jewish. It’s a made-up name. It came from nowhere and means nothing. You can’t possibly get more American than that.”
― Jem Matzan, Try Catch Finally

“Halleck hated being called 'sir.' It was one of many instances in American culture where what was formerly known as good manners was now actually bad manners. Being called 'sir' was Anand’s ostensibly polite way of calling Halleck a regular asshole who habitually demands things that he is not entitled to receive.”
― Jem Matzan, Try Catch Finally

“Thousands of software click-wrap license agreements and website privacy policies had made Halleck numb to the injustice of forced consent in trade for necessary access.”
― Jem Matzan, Try Catch Finally