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121 " Festiva, a car that won the award for most ironic distance between name and driving experience. "
― Daryl Gregory , Spoonbenders
122 " In Chicago,” she said, “meat is a condiment. "
123 " God gets the easiest performance reviews. "
― Daryl Gregory , Afterparty
124 " Everyone in the class turned. On one of the tables, a frog had started to smoke, and the limbs were twitching spasmodically. Dr. Herbert rushed over, clapping his hands. "It's alive!" he cried. "
― Daryl Gregory , Harrison Squared
125 " As I sat there in the pew during the altar call, I suddenly understood that if I didn’t surrender to Him I would go to Hell when I died. It wasn’t Hell itself that scared me—or not just Hell. It was the idea that my mother was going to Heaven without me. "
126 " So this made-up religion--""I didn't say made-up. I said brand new. 'Made-up religion' is redundant. "
127 " Rogue factories on the other side of the border, most of them also on Native American reservations, pumped out millions of cheap, untaxed, generic cigarettes a year. You couldn’t blame the Indians. We took their land; they were giving us cancer. "
128 " Denny's is a hellscape of unfettered free will. "
129 " The doctor unfurled her wings into Maximum Righteousness Mode. The flaming sword was in her hand. She pointed with it like the archangel casting us out of the garden. “Get your ass back there! "
130 " Perhaps that's a smile on Delia's face-but Delia's half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, "Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went. "
― Daryl Gregory , Raising Stony Mayhall
131 " They passed a door that was ajar, but behind it was a wall of floor-to-ceiling crap like a dead end in a closed-environment game level. "
― Daryl Gregory , We Are All Completely Fine
132 " There’s no seat in Wrigley Field for a God damn Pollyanna. You root-root-root for the home team, and they lose anyway. It teaches you how the world works, kid. Sure, start every spring with your hopes and dreams, but in the universe in which we live, you will be mathematically eliminated by Labor Day. Count on it. "
133 " If I don't come back, donate my books to the library. "