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41 " But I look for meaning anyway. I look for it in books. I look for it in relationships. I look for it in the endless crowds of kids funneling in and out of the school. I look for it in death. I look for it in the snow in the middle of the night while the rest of the world sleeps. I look for it goddamn everywhere. "
― L.T. Vargus , Casting Shadows Everywhere
42 " I sure would like to kiss you, Miss Darger.” “For fuck’s sake, Owen. If you’re going to kiss me, at least call me Violet.” He smiled. “There’s that mouth again. "
― L.T. Vargus , Killing Season (Violet Darger #2)
43 " Nick says a lot of stuff like that. Like his whole life is an action movie. "
44 " As my mama would say, ‘That woman would yank out a stop sign to argue with the hole. "
― L.T. Vargus , Night on Fire (Violet Darger #6)
45 " The ability to create life, to produce a fully formed human being — a body and a soul — that was the real magic of the universe. It made every woman a potential Goddess. "
― L.T. Vargus , The Girl in the Sand (Violet Darger #3)
46 " These callous tenets existed elsewhere in business, but they mostly stayed out of sight. Unspoken. In sweatshops making Nikes and iPhones, in the child and slave labor force responsible for most of the world’s cocoa production, in police and military action that served business interests above all, it could clearly be seen that profits mattered more than lives, more than people. Only the organized crime sector seemed transparent about this, took it into their own hands, owned it. "
― L.T. Vargus , Bad Blood (Violet Darger #4)
47 " There’s probably a special place in hell for the petroleum industry executives. Right next to the people that don’t pick up dog shit in public places. "
― L.T. Vargus , Dark Passage (Violet Darger #7)
48 " Well, what he done to you is a fact. It is what it is. But what it means is just an idea. You can’t change a fact, but you can always change an idea. "
49 " And losing some of the time made winning feel that much better. "
50 " -I like how she doesn’t wear makeup ever when most girls in school cake their goddamn faces with it like they’re about to go on live television. "
51 " awkwardly in her lap. Her fingers twitched involuntarily, and it occurred to her that she should pretend she was still out. Where "
― L.T. Vargus , Dead End Girl (Violet Darger, #1)
52 " A good thing, too. It was always easier to talk to a witness when they were breathing. "
53 " I think he just changed the spelling, Robert. Like for artistic reasons.” He wrinkled his nose up and thought about it, squeezing the ball a second before he went back to firing up layups. “No. I think they’re different. Tupac Shakur and two-pack.” “Maybe you’re right,” I said. I didn’t even want to get into the whole Makaveli thing. "
54 " Rub-a-dub-dub. Mother Mary in the tub. "
55 " This is what I’m sayin’: Doin’ stuff you’s scared to do and succeeding builds confidence like nothin’ else. "
56 " Not having any room to curtsy in the confines of the car, she thanked him with her middle finger. "
57 " And wasn’t that what these girls were to him? Human garbage? Disposable pieces of flesh and bone? Just here for him to consume and then throw out when he’s finished. "
58 " Every day is a chance to get better and better and better at whatever you want to do. Or whoever you want to be, I guess. "
59 " The band squeezed her skull like an old man trying to find a ripe cantaloupe in the produce department. "
60 " All over the country, people seemed to matter less these days. Have less value. They were just another global commodity for the businesses to use, to grind up, to abandon. "