Besides, anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.
“Lines from an old film came back to him unbidden: That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. You’re an improbable person, and so am I.”
― The Obsidian Chamber
― The Obsidian Chamber
“Dear Odd, if one’s friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.”
― Forever Odd
― Forever Odd
“IN MY OPINION, one of the great follies in the world is to put yourself inside the head of dysfunctional people. The mistake we usually make is to assume there is a rationale for their behavior. In most cases, there is none.”
― Robicheaux
― Robicheaux
“Hard luck seemed to seep out of the ground itself, as though the devil’s rooms in Hades were directly beneath these streets, his sleeping loft so near the surface that his fetid breath, expelled with every snore, percolated through the soil.”
― The Complete Odd Thomas Series
― The Complete Odd Thomas Series
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