“Men start off good and then the world makes them mean. The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day. It uses you up until you only dream of death.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“I am what I am. To look for reasons is beside the point.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
“When even the bartenders lose their romantic notions, it's time for a better world.”
― The Last Good Kiss
― The Last Good Kiss
“Because he was beginning to fear that man belongs neither in civilization nor nature—because we are aberrations between two states of being.”
― Hold the Dark
― Hold the Dark
“In was raised to believe that what came in on the next roll would always be better than what went out on the last. I no longer believe that, but I am telling you how it was.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
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