“I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.”
― Dead Beat
― Dead Beat
“I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.”
― Dead Beat
― Dead Beat
“I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards.”
― Dead Beat
― Dead Beat
“Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.”
― Dead Beat
― Dead Beat
“Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.”
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― Dead Beat
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Biography, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Manga, Music, Paranormal, Romance, Science fiction, Young-adult, urban-fantasy, science-fiction-fantasy, aliens, alternate-history, alternate-universe, apocalyptic, cyberpunk, dying-earth, dystopia, hard-science-fiction, military-science-fiction, utopia, time-travel, sword-and-planet, steampunk, space-opera, near-future, robots, planetary-romance, doctor-who, media-tie-in, dark-fantasy, dragons, heroic-fantasy, high-fantasy, low-fantasy, magic, christian-fiction, and epic-fantasy
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