Gangster Terms Quotes

“We have to get rid of pain in ass. She will not let me have good time. We should take her out.”
“Take her out where?”
Hanni grinned. “You know. Take her out. Waste her. Bang bang. Curtains.”
“Hanni, I don’t think we’re going to be able to waste the baroness, but I agree she’s not going to make things pleasant for us.”
“Then we must plan way to make her go home.”
“Make it not nice for her here. She likes to eat. Serve her very little food.”
“For someone straight from the convent, you are quite devious,” I said.
“What means devious?”
“Sneaky.”
“Oh, like pulling a fast one,” she said, beaming. “Yeah. Sure thing, baby.”
― Rhys Bowen, A Royal Pain

“Special combo, you got it," I say into the phone. "Which one?"
"The winter melon soup."
Winter melon is symbolic of a wife- a special order of the soup means someone's is about to be abducted. A special order of egg fried rice? Someone's kid. Fried pot stickers? A husband. Shanghai chow mein with chopped-up noodles? Someone's doomed to have their life cut short, the promise of longevity broken.”
― Elsie Chapman, Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love