“We're going to have such fun, you and I.”
“Father once told me there was a sweet spot to life between the age of fifteen and sixty-five when you were fully visible to the world—any older and you fade from sight, dimming to obscurity. And”
“He loved TV Guide. He never watched television, didn’t need to—he got everything he needed from the magazine”
“television had lost its luster when they canceled The Incredible Hulk in May of 1982.”
“Mizaru means see no evil, Kikazaru means hear no evil, and Iwazaru means speak no evil.” Father”
“What I needed was to lose myself in a good book, one with tons of sex and angst, complete with an unbelievable happily-ever-after that made me love and hate the book at the same time.”
“Joe Spork opens the door. The man departs. Joe turns to Polly to say something about how they’re obviously not going to Portsmouth, and finds an oyster knife balanced on his cheek, just under his eye.
“Can we be very clear,” Polly Cradle murmurs, “that I am not your booby sidekick or your Bond girl? That I am an independent supervillain in my own right?”
Joe swallows. “Yes, we can,” he says carefully.
“There will therefore be no more ‘Say hello, Polly’?”
“There will not.”
“If you want to help the poor, demonstrate to them that they can become rich; prove it by getting rich yourself.”
“The feeling that no matter what happened or what I did, there was someplace safe to fall.”
“I guessed it was a migratory bird, too innocent to be wary of the spiders in the jungle grass. It worried be to think that we were a little like that bird”
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