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Of course you wanted your children to have it better than you had. But at what point was it not better at all? People needed something to worry about or they would destroy themselves, and she thought of her grandchildren and all the ...more
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Jess Walter
“Technology, as he saw it, had finally succeeded in shrinking the globe, so much so that every news story felt dangerous and personal, every war a threat to his family, every firestorm, hurricane, and melting ice cap a local disaster, the seas boiling up around them, every cynical political and legal maneuver part of the same rotten fabric—and half the country somehow seeing it exactly the opposite way.”
Jess Walter, So Far Gone

Mickey Spillane
“You got a face that belongs in the movies and a body that should be a crime to cover.”
Mickey Spillane, Vengeance Is Mine

T.J. Klune
“You don’t seem like a man who loves to fail, so why are you so good at it?”
T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

Joe  Hill
“No one needed a magic wardrobe that opened into Narnia if they had a library card; if you had a library card, you had a thousand magic wardrobes to choose from, ten thousand.”
Joe Hill, King Sorrow

S.A. Cosby
“The world’s fine, Ronnie. It’s us that’s fucked up,” he said.”
S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

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