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Outside in the parking lot, the temperature had hit the high eighties, and the heat from the steaming blacktop burned through the soles of her sneakers.
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“I had a nightmare," I tell her.
"I read that bad dreams can be caused by eating before bed."
"Good to know," I say, although I'm pretty sure my dreams of Vivian were caused by her diary and not what little I ate last night.”
― The Last Time I Lied
"I read that bad dreams can be caused by eating before bed."
"Good to know," I say, although I'm pretty sure my dreams of Vivian were caused by her diary and not what little I ate last night.”
― The Last Time I Lied
“I found Shaw's place easy enough, but had to drive past the address and park around the corner to avoid the residential parking signs and all the dib holders -- old office chairs, busted baby strollers, orange traffic cones -- sitting in shoveled-out spots, waiting for their shovelers' return. The practice of saving your spot on a city street was technically illegal, but so were a lot of things the city let slide until somebody made a big stink about it and ruined it for everybody else.”
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“The last thing I need is the sheriff on my case. That's who I thought you were, as a matter of fact. They got women sheriffs these days, did you know that? Sherifettes."
"So I've heard."
"What about you?" she asked. "How'd you become a detective. That's a weird way to make a living, isn't it?"
She was becoming real chatty now that I was on my way out and I wondered if I might pump her for more information. She seemed eager to prolong the contact, like someone who's been cooped up too long with a pack of preschool kids.
"I sort of backed into detective work," I said, "but it beats selling shoes.”
― B is for Burglar
"So I've heard."
"What about you?" she asked. "How'd you become a detective. That's a weird way to make a living, isn't it?"
She was becoming real chatty now that I was on my way out and I wondered if I might pump her for more information. She seemed eager to prolong the contact, like someone who's been cooped up too long with a pack of preschool kids.
"I sort of backed into detective work," I said, "but it beats selling shoes.”
― B is for Burglar
“Bernice sat in the chair by the window day after day, knitting a pearl-white sweater for Rog, a sweater she later admitted to me she didn't care if he ever wore or liked; she was knitting to keep him alive.”
― Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
― Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
“Anna wondered what it was that was so alienating about cars. Somehow, more than any othter machine, they seemed to create a world of their own, a mobile pack-rat midden full of personal artifacts that utterly separated man from the natural environment he hurtled through.”
― Ill Wind
― Ill Wind
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