Faustian

“Sometimes he felt as if he had stepped into an alternate universe where the old laws of nature and what was right and wrong did not apply.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, By Bizarre Hands

“Shit, I could jerk you up from there, pop you like a whip. Pop you so hard your snatch will snap off and smack the wall."

"So," Vanilla said. "How was charm school?”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Honky Tonk Samurai

“But to lose my idealism, to quit believing in the ability of human beings to rise above their baser instincts, was to become old and bitter and of no service to anyone, not even myself.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Savage Season

“That first loving kiss, the one that comes out of you from the source of your personal river, and the one that comes from her that is the same, there's never another moment like it; never another flame that burns so hot. It can never be that good again, ever. All manner of goodness can come after, but it's different. And that's a good thing, because if we burned that hot for too long, we'd be nothing but ash.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Paradise Sky