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1 " I don't know how it got to this, but I'm in a war. There's no chance for diplomacy. They want me dead and I don't think I can run from this. Not after what they've done to me. So if this is a war, then I'm going to take the fight to them. I'll raid their lair and I'll kill as many as I can. There seem to be endless numbers of them, but they've got to have a limit. Tonight we'll find out if there are more of them than there is fight in me. "
― Dennis Liggio , Support Your Local Monster Hunter (Nowak Brothers #3)
2 " I'll say that for all the good things, all the great things, the super wow things it can do, the heart is kind of an asshole. The strongest feelings we have are never when things are stable, never when things are solid, never when we can handle things. The sharpest feelings are when things are either super good or super bad, as if the heart only ever wants to add gasoline to a fire. And the heart has all the subtlety of a freight train. It's going to hit you, and it's going to hit you hard. "
― Dennis Liggio , Jabberwock Jack (Nowak Brothers #2)
3 " Was this the stupidest thing I had ever done? Maybe, maybe not. Top ten, at least. "
4 " I have the whole team just around the block! One call and they'll ride in here like cavalry! Riding on... robots! Giant robots! Well, not giant robots, like in Egan, but... but... big enough robots! "
― Dennis Liggio , Burning Monday (Dane Monday #2)
5 " When you see zombies, they're typically in a horde. A big group close together, as if they were just holding hands before you saw them and they quickly let go. "
6 " The possibilities were as endless as the Midnight Creature Feature and I had zero leads on what was actually happening. "
7 " His voice was deep and gruff, like someone's normal voice that had been rubbed repeatedly across five miles of hot asphalt. "
― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1)
8 " Besides those that we know are definitely untrue, some of history's greatest storytellers and historians may be complete liars. History is written by the victors and stories last because they are remembered, retold, and enjoyed. "
9 " I tried lifting my cane and swinging it in a threatening way, but the movement was faint and wouldn't hurt anyone besides small children with bone defects who stood very, very still for me. "
― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies Strike Back! (Damned Lies #2)
10 " I wouldn't have trusted her to not have an ulterior motive if she asked whether I wanted milk or sugar in my coffee. "
― Dennis Liggio , Cthulhu, Private Investigator
11 " A ghost doesn't just move normally. They have this freaky way of zipping across the room. You see the ghost, you blink, and then it's suddenly behind you or up in your face and you scream and dig your nails into your boyfriend's knee and the he has marks there for like a week and I hope you're putting out for all that goddamn pain you put him through when you were the one who picked the movie even when you knew it was going to be scary. "
― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies of the Dead 3D (Damned Lies 3)
12 " Death ray?” scoffed Victor. “Death ray? Everyone thinks that inventors just have death rays just sitting around. ‘Oh you’re an inventor? Have you made a death ray yet?’ ‘How’s the inventing going? What’s your death ray like?’ I’m sick of it. "
13 " To Lovecraft and Hammett And everyone who is okay with the idea of combining them together Like chocolate and peanut butter "
14 " I miss the old days, and I mean the old old days when there were some really awesome birth stories. When Hercules was still in his crib, he was attacked by two snakes sent by Hera, the unhappy wife of his father. Wee Baby Hercules strangled those two snakes by himself with nothing but his bare hands. Yes, Wee Baby Hercules was more of a badass than most of us ever reach in our entire lifespan. "
15 " I hoped that while drugged I got a good night's sleep as I didn't have time for it now. "
16 " Before the cabin simply sat innocently, but now it was hunched over, peering down at me and the fire. It was now a strange monstrosity almost ready to scuttle away on a multitude of wooden insectoid legs at any moment. I was positive I wasn’t going in there; not while it was like this. It would eat me. "
17 " If things went poorly, I would slam into the glass at high velocity, smashing myself flat on the glass, then with a comical squeak I would slide down and off it, falling into the arms of countless zombies that want to hug and love me until my flesh was in their undead stomachs. "
18 " I knew if I walked out the front with it, I'd have at least one tail. "
19 " I have not become a vengeful spirit hellbent on destroying the lives of the living through carefully crafted deceit and rituals of unspeakable magic that will summon Nazi alien lizards from Antares who have structured their society around Norse myths and cappuccino. "
20 " Ideas?" I said. "Don't die," Bruce said. "Not unless you're completely out of other options." "Ideas other than that?" I said. "Make him die instead," he said. "You're a big fucking help. "
