Ryan Jones

“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald