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“What now?” she asked, instead. Long Chau smiled, a ghost of her earlier expression. “I would go look for another corpse for my memoir, but I don’t feel like I could handle the consequences just right now.”
“My books always say something, even if it’s just something simple like: 'Don’t genetically engineer crabs to be as big as men.”
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“We shouldn’t be forced to choose at all. The fury in Aida’s voice was familiar. Nostalgic. I’d once possessed that strain of fury, as had my fellow cooks, my friends, my produce guy, a virulent rage against our tainted inheritance of this stupid, smog-choked planet. But it couldn’t last. We’d been inoculated from rage by other, more immediate concerns. For example: how to pay rent, how to stay alive. Aida, rich as she was, hadn’t been forced to choose between anger and dinner. For the first time in years, I tasted, through her, that feeling.”
― Land of Milk and Honey
― Land of Milk and Honey
“Good job I loaded this with silver bullets from that box of silver bullets that was sitting on that table labelled “Silver Bullets” inside the “Silver Bullet’’ room I just entered.”
― Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
― Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
“Descartes: a weirdo celebrity heretic pseudo-refugee who had a weakness for cross-eyed women, weed and conspiracy theories.”
― Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses
― Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses
“She may well have whispered, ‘I’ll miss you,’ once I’d gone, but I couldn’t hear that from where I was, and as this is first-person narration and therefore not omniscient, we just won’t know.”
― Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
― Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
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