Frank Miller · 208 pages
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“Hell’s waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you’re here.”
― Frank Miller, quote from Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye
“Worth dying for. Worth killing for. Worth going to hell for.Amen.”
― Frank Miller, quote from Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye
“I’ll stare the bastard in the face as he screams to God, and I’ll laugh harder when he whimpers like a baby. And when his eyes go dead, the hell I send him to will seem like heaven after what I’ve done to him.”
― Frank Miller, quote from Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye
“When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine.”
― Frank Miller, quote from Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye
“I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.”
― Frank Miller, quote from Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye
“She smells like angels ought to smell, the perfect woman... the Goddess. Goldie. She says her name is Goldie.”
― Frank Miller, quote from Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye
“Dames. Sometimes all they got to do is let it out and a few buckets later there's no way you'd ever know.”
― Frank Miller, quote from Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye
“I love the rain. It helps me think.”
― Frank Miller, quote from Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye
“Reaching for his toothbrush, I looked at it and realized he’d been brushing his teeth for somebody else for a long time. I don’t know what possessed me to do it but I dunked it in the toilet. That pleased me so much that I rubbed it around the inside rim. That seemed so pleasant I then scrubbed up under the rim, good and hard, where no toilet brush could’ve reached in weeks.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, quote from Sullivan's Island
“I am not sure,' Mordecai told Thomas, 'whether omens can be trusted.'
'Of course they can.'
'I should like to hear your reasons. But show me your urine first.'
'You said I was cured,' Thomas protested. 'Eternal vigilance, dear Thomas, is the price of health. Piss for me.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from Vagabond
“You were a warrior, Lantern. Such men are not renowned for understanding the infinite shades of gray that govern the actions of men. Black and white are your colors.” “Scholars tend to overcomplicate matters,” said Skilgannon. “If a man runs at you with a sword it would be foolish to spend time wondering what led him to such action. Was his childhood scarred by a cruel father? Did his wife leave him for another man? Was he perhaps misinformed about your intentions, and therefore has attacked you in error?” Skilgannon laughed. “Warriors need black and white, Elder Brother. Shades of gray would kill them.” “True,” admitted the abbot, “and yet a greater understanding that there are shades of gray would prevent many wars beginning.”
― David Gemmell, quote from White Wolf
“It’s funny how you want to do a thing and never do it.”
― John Steinbeck, quote from In Dubious Battle
“The clerk is looking at me. His expression hasn't changed. What I want to do is punch a hole in the front of the desk, reach through, grab his balls, and make him sing The Mickey Mouse Club song. But these days, I'm working on the theory that killing everyone I don't like might be counterproductive. I'm learning to use my indoor voice like a big boy, so I smile back at the clerk.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
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