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1 " You become a great writer by writing lots and lots of stories, not by rewriting the same story over and over again. "
― Scott William Carter
2 " ...I realized that even when people know the pep talk is phony, they still want to hear it. Maybe it was easier to believe a lie when somebody else was saying it rather than you saying it to yourself. "
― Scott William Carter , The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys
3 " eight years younger than me, but the distance between us seemed much more vast now, ages come and gone, civilizations risen and fallen, eons of struggle and suffering. "
― Scott William Carter , Ghost Detective (Myron Vale Investigations, #1)
4 " Most scholars believe he wasn't talking about God personified, but instead about the shared cultural belief in God, something that bound people together until the Enlightenment. He was mostly concerned that that shared belief helped create a moral foundation for mankind, and without it, something would have to take its place or man's worst nature would run rampant "
― Scott William Carter , The Gray and Guilty Sea (Garrison Gage, #1)
5 " She's not really that rude. She tells me she acts that way 'cause she's a nihilist. I don't know what that is exactly, but I figure it's like having the cramps all the time. "
6 " Glock aimed at him, safety off, "
7 " When people get real scared, they start getting scared of everything they don’t know and don’t understand. "
― Scott William Carter , The Ghost Who Said Goodbye (Myron Vale Investigations, #2)
8 " Death took everything that mattered to us eventually, sometimes all at once, sometimes a little at a time. All that was left afterward were lots of ghosts, not just the human kind, but faint echoes of our former lives, reminding us of all that we had lost. "
9 " After the body was carted away, the bloodstains on his linoleum looked like an abstract painting by Jackson Pollock. "
10 " This was different. This was living in the moment, with no expectations. For once, he wasn't waiting for everything to go to hell. Naturally, "
― Scott William Carter , A Shroud of Tattered Sails (Garrison Gage, #4)
11 " The need for revenge is an inferno that consumes all, leaving nothing and no one unburned. "
12 " To really get over a loss of any kind of magnitude, you had to feel sorry for yourself. You had to be okay with that, with that kind of indulgence. You had to treat yourself the way you would treat someone else who'd suffered in a similar way. For some of us, maybe for a lot of us, that was hard to do. Why "
― Scott William Carter , The Ghost, the Girl, and the Gold (Myron Vale Investigations, #3)
13 " The trouble with having no troubles, he'd learned, was that if you didn't have them, you didn't have anything. No troubles, no life. It "
14 " The swath of fiery orange along the horizon was like a crack in a potter's kiln. "
15 " was divided into two parts—the front "
16 " enough, "
17 " A plan sprang up in Gage's mind, one that would give him a chance, a tiny sliver of a chance, and it depended on everything going just right. "
18 " the idea I'm lesbo or nothing," she explained. "I just ain't ever gotten around to taking 'em down. Willie passed two years ago—shot himself with that Smith and Wesson right there." She nodded to the case mounted on the wall. "I'm sorry to hear that. "
19 " But people often surprised Gage. It was one of the things that kept life tolerable. From "
20 " Sex appeal was confidence and mystery and allure, none of which had anything to do with clothing—or the lack of it. The "
