“But I sure do love to whack a grown-up in the morning.”
“You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to some of them screw up. They’re not in the game no more.”
“Now Lewis joined in. 'A sicko walks into a bar,' he said. 'WHAM! And then i hit him with the bar again, an iron bar, and knock him flat, then i hit him again, and again and again until his brains are, like, smashed all over the pavement. And then i slice him up with my new katana!'
'Yeah, Lewis,' said Brooke. 'Funny joke. Way to lighten the mood, bruv.”
“Dinosaurs…why did it have to be dinosaurs?”
“you see that movie, Chicken Run, where the chickens gang up together and escape from the farm?”
“This just ain’t my day, is it?’ They came to the statue of a naked woman and Lewis slapped her on the buttocks. ‘You wouldn’t turn me down, would you, princess?’ he said.”
“Bible: Various portions of it, when properly interpreted, contain a code of behaviour which many men consider best suited to the ultimate happiness of mankind.”
“It is strange how in moments of great crisis the mind whips back to childhood.”
“Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.”
“With some people it makes a regular battlefield of the human heart—this struggle for self-expression," said Philip. "You are going to do beautiful work in the world, and do it well.”
“I would love to slap you right now, but I’m currently wielding a nine pound ball and I’m afraid that would be called murder.”
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