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nothing in the past was worth shit, but the future, Ah! the future was blazing with promise.
“He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.”
― Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History
― Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History
“Lust is a universal language.”
― My Government Means to Kill Me
― My Government Means to Kill Me
“No wonder the man wins all his battles: He doesn’t recognize defeat!”
― Camp Concentration
― Camp Concentration
“But I'd unsettle you even more if I chose not to share with you the disturbing story I know. Your mind would invent something even more grotesque, more upsetting than my words could ever conjure.”
― You've Lost a Lot of Blood
― You've Lost a Lot of Blood
“What the doctors didn’t tell me was how much I would change while watching her suffer. I shouldn’t be so surprised, though. Each thing we love takes a little piece of us whether we give it willingly or not. By the time we find the person we were meant to be with, we’re a honeycombed shell of what we once were. Each person we love turns us into the strange thing we become.”
― The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories
― The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories
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