“With the amount of diazepam in me, I should have been content to lie back and let events unfold as they may, and my curiosity did for a moment consider it, but then a punch of panic reminded me that people far saner than I were murdered for less in more conspicuous locations.”
― Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
― Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
“I hereby certify that the bearer of this note, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the night in question at Satan's ball, having been lured there in a transportational capacity... Hella, put in parentheses! And write 'hog.' Signed- Behemoth.”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
“Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can’t fathom.”
― Beneath a Scarlet Sky
― Beneath a Scarlet Sky
“Advanced life-forms, my seweet patootie. Jerks. Both of them.”
― Fang
― Fang
“And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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