“Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.”
“Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.”
“In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.”
“He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.”
“The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.”
“A moon like a fallen fruit reversing gravity was hoisting itself above the rooftops.”
“Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. I learned that at my mother’s knee and other low joints,”
“his manner had the heavy ease of a politician, poised between bullying and flattery.”
“A young man with an untrimmed beard and rebellious eyes looked like a conscientious objector to everything.”
“I could smell fog even at this level now. It was rolling down from the mountains, flooding out the moon, as well as rising from the sea. The”
“Why did my conversational skills take a hike when he was around? -Kayla Madison”
“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo. Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca.”
“Not that they were there to have fun—although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.”
“Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.”
“I couldn’t believe this guy was still alive. A field mouse would most likely send him shrieking into the night. Bad example, that would probably send me shrieking into the night, too.”
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