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Every reckless and wild thing she had done in the past, she realized, was but a warmup before the workout.
“This book is about the stories we tell ourselves about power, and how today’s nightmares about deep states and dark conspiracies were formed: specters that were ready and waiting to be summoned and pressed back into service once America lurched back into crisis.”
― Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals About America Today
― Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals About America Today
“Grief was a hole. A portal to nothing.”
― Notes on an Execution
― Notes on an Execution
“He became his own blues song, a Tom Waits loser, a Kerouac saint, a Springsteen hero under the lights of the American highway and the neon glow of the American strip. A fugitive, a sharecropper, a hobo, a cowboy who knows that he’s running out of prairie but rides anyway because there’s nothing left but to ride.”
― The Cartel
― The Cartel
“I applied what the unofficial Humvee manual called 2-40 air-conditioning, which meant you opened two windows and drove at forty miles an hour.”
― The Enemy
― The Enemy
“I was twenty-six and I didn’t know what I realized later, that competitive businesses are always on the lookout for young and ambitious workers, eager to learn, able to take orders, even-tempered and undemanding—no family, no mortgage, adaptable, portable, loyal, grateful, who will work for much less money than someone older, to build a résumé and make a reputation.”
― The Bad Angel Brothers
― The Bad Angel Brothers
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