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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

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Perfect Strangers by J.T. Geissinger

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Whatever it was, it’s new. For years my body has felt nothing but a boneyard chill.

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Holly’s Quotes

“We aren’t here to be sophisticated. We’re here to fuck people up.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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“Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

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“Of course, eating these food items is not what I might describe as pleasant, since they’re tough and scorched and moistureless from their all-day cooking on high-temperature rollers. Sometimes biting through a burrito’s thick tortilla casing can feel like chewing through your own toe calluses.” “That’s an image that’s going to linger.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

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“It was part of the dichotomy of Alec that had caught Magnus unaware and left him fascinated - that Alec seemed old for his age, serious and responsible, and yet that he approached the world with a tender wonder that made all things new. Alec was a warrior who brought Magnus peace.”
― Cassandra Clare, What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

tags: alec-lightwood, love, magnus-bane

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“So we’re good?” Dillon says. “We’re in an overheating truck we don’t own and we just blew up about twelve semis and we left a paralyzed woman to die in her car and I’m wearing some dead guy’s jacket and we just saw our two best friends die and there’s a killer after us who can change his face and likes to eat people,” Harper says. “Yeah, I’d say we’re great.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Killer on the Road / The Babysitter Lives

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