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She was a decent storyteller, but a crap liar, for all the sense that made.

Without temptation, there was no virtue in resistance.

Yes it's pink. That's how you know it's for ladies. That might be the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say.

He hadn't found what he'd meant to find, but his need to swipe and hoard something had been appeased for now.

I guess because, well, just because it was able to evolve. When it couldn't be one thing anymore, it became something else and kept on living that way

I've got a woman. A crazy woman." "Sounds like the start of a country song to me," I said.

Last century's magic is this year's science.

I met his eyes because I could not refuse them ... they were the color of a storm clashing with a setting sun.

Above me, the moon spun low across the sky and a few watery clouds hung from the stars like cobwebs. In

I slipped on through, slicker than whale shit through an ice floe.

She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way; but west Texas had given her something more concrete upon which to dread the afterlife.

But at some point, a full-grown woman has to be accountable for her own self, and for the choices she's made.

Libby was dead. Princess X disappeared.
May lost her best friend again, and again, and again.

Maybe we could do that whole "my enemy's enemy" thing and skip off into the night, holding hands.

Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy.

It sounded like a good idea at the time, which is probably going to be on my tombstone - along with a catty footnote about poor impulse control. But

Surreal. It was his word of the week. This must be one of the circles of hell Dante accidentally left off the list.

For some reason the mundanity of it all offended Gideon. You'd think people would have the good grace to dress up for an assassination.

Even down here, money has plenty to say.

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal.
We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.

Sometimes the advantage of being young and bright is not knowing what's impossible.

a certain stink on a certain kind of soul, a foul scent of hateful smallness too often thwarted . . . then given an ounce of power.

Honey, these aren't ordinary penis bones." "Not the kind you pick up at Walgreens, with a bottle of aspirin and a scented candle?

Some place to stand and place a lever, there's nowhere from which to move the world.

Fuck you," he said, resorting to that last argument of vice presidents.

I assume they're still there, ostriching themselves and eating paint chips, or whatever it is they do in their spare time. I

I don't think I make a very convincing dude. I think I look more like a lumberjack lesbian with an eating disorder than a kick-ass drag king.

And if there are gods after all, perhaps we should not struggle so hard to get their attention, if this is the attention they would lavish upon us.

In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground - or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.

Adrian had a Guinness because I guess he felt like drinking a loaf of bread or something. That's what it smelled like, anyway.

You're a smart boy. Or if you're not, you ought to be.

Sometimes, everyone is right. Not always and not even usually, but once in a while, everyone is right.

She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.

This may be a shitty work environment, but OSHA doesn't have any guidelines when it comes to ghosts. We'll have to make up our own as we go.

Someone else's phone rang twice, and was answered by a scowl I could hear all the way over on my end of the line.

There are worse things than minotaurs at the centre.

It's been said that she was young once, but never beautiful.

(Is this what we fled, when we left the ocean? Did we grow legs so we could run away?)

Palatable. Easier to overlook. Forgotten, or at least smoothed into some pearl-like blandness, if not a thing of beauty.

Father, forgive me - for I know precisely what I'm doing.

"I don't know exactly what's wrong with you, but I bet it's hard to pronounce when you're drunk."

Which meant he had about eight weeks to pull something amazing out of his butt.
His butt was not being terribly helpful.

Raylene- Actually ... I have an idea.
Adrian- Oh no.
R- No, it's a *good* idea.
A- I don't believe you.

Give me that power, and I'll use it against you. I'll be your Madonna. I'll be your queen. And I'll have your head if it's the last thing I ever do.