Michael Lee

“We want to assure the public that this threat is contained." Only an elected official would dare to declare a thing safe and finished when he or she didn't even know yet what it was.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Strain

“The magician was coming alive. The illusionist, the eternal pacifier and eflector of ridicule, the dancer on eggshells and creator of impossible karma was answering the call of the footlights. The Oliver of the rain-swept bus shelters, children's hospitals and Salvation Army hostels was performing for his life and Tiger's, while Tinatin cooked, and Yevgeny half-listened and counted his misfortunes in the flames, and Hoban and his fellow devils dreamed their sour mischief and pondered their dwindling options. And Oliver knew his audience. He empathized with its disarray, its stunned senses and confused allegiances. He knew how often in his own life, at its absolutely lowest moments, he would have given everything he had for one lousy conjurer with a stuffed raccoon.”
― John le Carré, Single & Single

“Are you sure you don't know where Jimmy is hiding?'
'Maybe I'll remember if you show me your tits.'
'That's disgusting. This is a viewing. There's a dead woman in there.'
'How about if I asked to see them in a bar?'
'No.'
'Suppose I bought you dinner?'
'No.'
'What if I was in the hospital with a heart attack?'
'No.'
'Boy, you're tough. Most women would go for the heart attack.”
― Janet Evanovich, Top Secret Twenty-One

“Since the medical board was made up mostly of other doctors, Rudy Graveline had fully expected exoneration--physicians stick together like shit on a shoe.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Skin Tight