Petting dogs was good for people; it was a scientific fact. Burt was a wise man, too, in his way. All animals are.
“I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve caught myself in the half-second before I splattered temper everywhere and stuck myself cleaning up the mess for the rest of my life.”
― The Trespasser
― The Trespasser
“The truth is, if you don’t exist without someone else, you don’t exist at all.”
― The Trespasser
― The Trespasser
“Vice, he realized, was Depression-proof.”
― Live by Night
― Live by Night
“Tongue-in-cheek nostalgia is merely the portal, the candy house, if you will, through which we hope to lure in a new generation and bewitch them.”
― The Candy House
― The Candy House
“An entire generation will throw off the fetters of rote commitment in favor of invention, hope—and we, their children, will try to locate the moment we lost them and worry that it was our fault.”
― The Candy House
― The Candy House
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