He hadn’t asked what the protocol was for dealing with a dead astronaut. He presumed it didn’t involve them being flown into the sun.
“I can hear the boy in the library. The noise of children is unmistakable. Even when they are trying to be quiet. Maybe even more so.”
― The City Where We Once Lived
― The City Where We Once Lived
“Eyes wide, he appears more startled than anything else, a man for whom the greatest mystery of all is about to be solved.”
― The Ferryman
― The Ferryman
“For fuck’s sake, having a conversation with her was like chasing a narcissistic butterfly through a shit-filled meadow.”
― Dead Space
― Dead Space
“Grundy Dopps, a sour-looking little pinch of white trash, waddled out of his trailer that morning somehow knowing it wasn’t going to be his day.”
― Streeter: All Four Novels
― Streeter: All Four Novels
“Have some faith in your government,” Barnes told her. “We march stupidly into countries we don’t understand; we sit back as our cities are decimated by natural disasters; and we let our schools go quietly to shit—despite these things, one thing we’re pretty good at is finding people who don’t want to be found.”
― The Middleman
― The Middleman
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