“Marcus, even in this darkness, I try to swim back to you.
I swear, I do.”
“Sometimes there is a darkness you can hear, a swallowing of your senses that blots out everything going on in the world around you, leaving only the chaos colliding and exploding in you own head. -- Olivia”
“But can’t we do that with our clothes on?”
“We could,” he said, giving me that cocky grin of his. “But where’s the fun in that?”
“Money talks. And throwing that money around shuts everyone else up.”
“Do you only think you love me? Are you pretty sure you love me? Or are you absolutely positive?” I asked. “Because it’s kind of an important distinction.”
“I think I’m pretty positive I love you.” He grinned down at me.”
“I think you've had a very hard life," Passion said calmly, "and you see everyone and everthing through a lens of mistrust." - Passion to Marcus”
“You know when someone says, 'no offense,' I pointed out to him, 'the thing they say directly after that is always offensive”
“I Sat back in the chair, surveying the view in front of me like some savvy superhero, safe in her secret lair.
& that's when I saw it; a shadow slipping across the lower corner of camera seventeen.”
“After all, eyes are the windows to the soul. But Renzo had a bit too much soul in his eye.”
“Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.”
“History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.”
“But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart?”
“I saw you first," Jack mumbled.
"You cannot use that as an argument," I rolled my eyes. "I'm not the last piece of pizza. I'm a perso.”
“There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost. ”
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