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61 " We circled around and came in from the northwest.” I lifted my wrist to show him the compass on my watch band, although I hoped that, being the pilot, he knew we’d approached from the northwest. “I was looking out the window. I saw a woman running down the street. There was a pack of dogs after her and a guy with a switchblade down the street in the direction she was running.”“Ma’am,” he said, still very patiently. I reached out and took a fistful of his shirt. Actually, at the last moment, I grabbed the air in front of his shirt. I didn’t think security could throw me out of the airport for grabbing air in a threatening fashion, not even in this post-9/11 age.“Don’t ma’am me . . . "
― C.E. Murphy , Urban Shaman (Walker Papers, #1)
62 " You seriously think you got some kind of god after you?” Gary asked. Marie nodded. Gary turned to me. “I vote we drop her off at a loony bin and run for the hills.”“Are you asking me to run away with you, Gary? After such a short, violent courtship? "
63 " I opened my eyes to find Gary and my mother sitting cross-legged up against a half-fallen wall, both of them laughing so hard they had tears running down their faces. My mother had Gary’s forearm in one hand as she wheezed, “She didn’t, she didn’t!” and wiped tears away with the other, and Gary nodded so merrily it appeared his head would go bobbling off. It was so completely incongruous with the farewell I’d just experienced I just sat there, offended on general principles, and waited for them to notice I’d woken up. Instead my mother threw her head back and shrieked like a delighted banshee, laughter bouncing off the crumbling walls. I looked upward. The surviving banshees still sat in the oak rafters, many of them with expressions of accusation. This was not how things were done, and it was clearly all my fault. "
― C.E. Murphy , Raven Calls (Walker Papers, #7)
64 " Sometimes, Emilia thought irritably, it was easier to be eighteen and convinced of your righteousness than over thirty-five and aware of your foibles. "
― C.E. Murphy , Wintergate (The Border Kingdom)
65 " I updrive a Bronco.""How environmentally irresponsible of you. "
― C.E. Murphy , Truthseeker (Worldwalker Duology, #1)
66 " Obviously I’m doing something wrong,” Russell said dryly. “I thought vacations involved white sand beaches and cerulean skies, not concussions and working over the weekend. "
― C.E. Murphy , Heart of Stone (Negotiator Trilogy/Old Races Universe #1)
67 " I lay on my back, whimpering at the dark sky, and tried to remember when I’d last gotten my ass kicked this thoroughly. Less than a week ago, probably, because it had been a bad couple of weeks, but "
― C.E. Murphy , Shaman Rises (Walker Papers, #9)
68 " I stared at Amaury, maintaining a half-smile and attitude until Joanne got back. Then I said, “I understand we have to talk to the chief suckhead of New Orleans." When in doubt, go for crass. "
― C.E. Murphy , Easy Pickings (Walker Papers, #7.6; Jane Yellowrock, #3.1)