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1 " Oslo probably owed them money. Sockeye Sammy’s shiner testified that it might not be a good idea to stiff his employer. But if I couldn’t pay up, I’d surely make myself scarce, too! "
― Mark Barkawitz , Full Moon Saturday Night
2 " My life had turned into a Raymond Chandler detective story and there seemed to be nothing I could do to stop its precipitous slide. "
3 " Oh, we’ll see you again, Mike. Just not with the same, pretty face. I hear you’re an actor, too. Pity. Your days of wooing leading ladies are about to end. "
4 " Jolly Jay rested the Louisville Slugger on his shoulder, as if he were Thor or some other god-like warrior who had come down from the heavens to our Deus ex machina rescue. "
5 " Any weapons or drugs, Mr. Hepp?” she asked.“No. Of course not.”She continued to look inside the car at the back seat. “What’s in the briefcase? "
6 " Just so we’re straight,” I said confidentially, staring into his lazy eyes, a stupid smile on his sophomoric, look-I-can-grow-a-mustache-now face. “I don’t like you. "
7 " From inside the cooler, Duke pounded on the door one, last time: “Let me outta here! "
8 " I know when someone’s trying to get me in bed, babe,” she huffed, crossing her arms under her breasts. “They were acting all giggly about it, trying to buy me shots at the bar to get me drunk. "
9 " As if some kind of demon were racking his brain, Curley Joe stood in front of the jukebox with a small, silver handgun still pointed at the hole its bullet had blown through the shattered Plexiglas. "
10 " To be truthful, Mike, we’d like to kill you. The vote went two-to-one. "
11 " I bent down and felt her neck for a pulse, as I’d seen the paramedics do with Philip. "
12 " Anything good in the briefcase?” he asked. I smiled back at him. “Everything’s good in the briefcase, Walter. "
13 " I think the sun was just peeking over the horizon—dawn patrol, as the coca-nuts termed it—when I finally fell off to a troubled sleep. "
14 " Six months out of college and I was already questioning my occupational direction. Screenwriter? Actor? Director? Movie and television producer? What the hell was I thinking? "
15 " So before we sent his ashes up to Iceland, Duke suggested that we have a little wake for Oslo at Ur-Place. Where else? "
16 " The full moon affected people. Sometimes in aberrant ways. Mix in an abundance of alcohol, a sprinkle of blow, and voilà—trouble! "
17 " She left the doorway, the brush idly in her hand—like a grenade, waiting to go off—and sat on the arm at the far end of the couch. "
18 " Sure, I’d thought about it—Go northeast, young man! To Cody. You know, to win her back. Like Dustin Hoffman chasing Katharine Ross in “The Graduate.” But what was the use in that? "
