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The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg, #1)

by Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 03, 2025 02:10PM

“Do gringos kiss?’ Big Angel asked.
‘Some,’ Little Angel said. ‘I know guys. Kiss their dads.’
‘Everybody kisses moms, though.’
‘Kissing moms doesn’t count. It’s required.’
‘Right, right. If you don’t kiss your mom, forget it, man.’
‘Right? You don’t get to heaven if you don’t kiss your mom.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels

tags: family

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“Men who do good deeds only wish to atone for their sins.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels

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“Carnal, rocks remember when they were mountains.'
They stared at the rocks in the garden.
'And what do mountains remember?'
'When they were ocean floors.'
Big Angel, Zen master.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels

tags: geology, mountains, rocks

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“How come,’ Big Angel said, ‘we never kissed?’
‘Kissed?’
‘Don’t families kiss?’
‘Like, brothers? Kissing?’
‘Why not?’
They pondered the new possibility.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels

tags: brothers, family

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“The other thing he railed against, after 'Mexican time' and lame excuses, was bad teeth. Mexicans could not afford bad teeth if they expected gringos to take them seriously.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels

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