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141 " Lily sat at her desk, expertly typing on a big, brown, IBM Selectric. The luxurious one that came with its own correction ribbon. "
― Marshall Thornton , From the Ashes (Boystown #6)
142 " Ants are busy. They have too much to do to feel bad. "
― Marshall Thornton , Bloodlines (Boystown #7)
143 " We have a microbrew I like called Hippity Hop. It’s an IPA, apple undertones and spicy kick.” I stared at him. I was really a PBR kind of guy, but I was a little afraid to ask for it. "
― Marshall Thornton , Masc (Femme, #2)
144 " Every single person is a stereotype until you get to know them. Getting to know someone you find out all the ways they don’t fit their stereotype. "
― Marshall Thornton , Femme
145 " It always surprised me that on the right guy a layer of sweat was sexy as hell, and on the wrong guy it was disgusting. "
146 " Though to be fair, "I live with my mother" is not the sexiest thing a man in his mid-forties can say. "
― Marshall Thornton , Two Nick Nowak Novellas (Boystown #3)
147 " I don't remember what I was saying, but I remember thinking I was incredibly smart and wishing I could always speak that clearly and cleverly. "
148 " She laughed. That didn't mean what he'd said was funny. It just mean they were still in that early phase of a romance, the part where you laughed, funny or not. "
149 " This was clearly Tim and Fetch’s fault. They’d put the idea in Dog’s head. Hell, they’d almost put the idea in my head. Matrimony was contagious. I wondered if the CDC was tracking it. They needed to come up with a vaccine against it soon. Oh Gawd, would there never be a cure?! "
150 " Oh my God, I thought, was he talking about Bewitched? Had Darren Stevens seduced him into advertising? "
― Marshall Thornton , Rewind (Pinx Video Mysteries #4)
151 " This was excitement, and desire, and pleasure. Nothing mattered while you were with a man. Nothing but the man, or men in this case. This was freedom. This was forgetting. "
152 " My disappointment was comfortable, like a blanket. "
― Marshall Thornton , Coyote Bluff
153 " betrayed by a fair-weather friend.’ He brushed off the bad news and shrugged, “It’s a very easy fortune to give. Everyone "
― Marshall Thornton , Code Name: Liberty
154 " betrayed by a fair-weather friend.’ He brushed off the bad news and shrugged, “It’s a very easy fortune to give. Everyone suffers betrayals big and small every day. "
155 " As I walked out of the apartment, I heard Guy’s mother—who’d been silent the whole time—say, “Doug? When are we going home? I hate this city. It’s nothing but niggers and fags. "
― Marshall Thornton , Night Drop (A Pinx Video Mystery, #1)
156 " He remembered a film called How to Murder Your Wife, but Martin couldn't think of any movie called How to Murder Your Nephew. "
― Marshall Thornton , My Favorite Uncle
157 " Celebrity spouse was exactly the arena he could excel in; it required good looks, red-carpet skills and unwavering enthusiasm(both public and private). He was totally qualified. "
― Marshall Thornton , The Perils of Praline: Or, the Amorous Adventures of a Southern Gentleman in Hollywood
158 " Some things were meaner if you said them calmly. "
159 " ..and whatever you do stay away from cults. There are all sorts of nutty cults out in Lala Land. Crazy people believing in aliens and spaceships.""Mama, you believe in aliens and spaceships.""Yes, but I believe in Jesus, too. That makes it different. "
160 " Killing someone, even a bad someone, didn’t feel good. It wasn’t like in the movies where you kill someone and then in the next scene, you’re back to looking for the nuclear codes or searching for the kidnappers or back undercover trying to take down the evil drug lord. No, in real life you feel shitty about it for a long time. Still, I was beginning to think that feeling shitty might be better than feeling dead. "
― Marshall Thornton , Lucky Days (Boystown, #9)