Jason Brashier

“No way," Melody said, making her way up the slope again. "We're the Three Muskateers, remember? We stick together."
"More like the Three Stooges," Troy said, trudging after her.
I'm not entirely sure but I think I managed a smile.
There were no more smiles after that, though - for any of us.”
― Richard Chizmar, Memorials

“He stared out the window and found himself thinking of that old Randy Newman song, "It's Money That Matters." It was money that
mattered, wasn't it? He shook his head. Times had changed. Twenty years ago-a decade ago, even-a rich man spending millions of dollars to get himself elected to public office would have been looked upon with suspicion and distrust. But in 1992, the town had voted overwhelmingly for Ross Perot, either buying completely into his "common man" persona and believing that the billionaire was more like them than were either of his two opponents, or else respecting and admiring his enormous wealth”
― Bentley Little, The Store

“The four who stopped running, who stood still at last in 1966, looking curiously about them, were beings such as the modern world had never seen. Only in ancient times, when boy emperors and Pharaohs were clothed, even fed, with pure gold, had very young men commanded an equivalent adoration, fascination and constant, expectant scrutiny.”
― Philip Norman, Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation

“There are constants in the Universe from which nothing can escape. Numbers. Harmonics. Movement. These are all languages which appear and reappear in all civilizations in all worlds in all dimensions and times. It is our strength, our weapon and our advantage.”
― Gigi Bannister, Phantasm: SurVIval: "It's NEVER Over!"