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1 " Payne sought clarification. “Vertical or horizontal?”“Horizontal, of course.”“Sorry but I can’t help you.” “Will you pipe down for a minute? Naturally she was dead since I work at a cemetery. Her face struck a chord though. So, I rummaged around in the old Rory memory bank, and Emily is what rings a bell. Didn’t we go to school with an Emily? Tenth or eleventh grade, if I recall it correctly. "
― Ed Lynskey , Smoking on Mount Rushmore: 16 New & Selected Short Stories
2 " The scratching came from the attic. At night, when Rory turned out the light I would lie awake and wait for it to skit, skit, skit lightly across the floorboards above our heads and down behind the water pipes. "
― Kate Chisman , Creep
3 " This has been a covert preparation for an overt operation." - Rory in NEVER GO ALONE "
4 " The trouble is I'm not very good at trusting my own instincts. I've been wrong before. A lot." " About what? You worry too much, about everything. You're to hard on yourself." " I was wrong about Rory -" " You were twenty-five, twenty-six! Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, its a mistake not to be. "
5 " He didn't look anything like the blokes on that gay porn channel Rory had clicked on by mistake when he'd been trying to find out how to make a daisy chain for Leo. "
― J.L. Merrow , Spun! (The Shamwell Tales, #4)
6 " None of them, not even what he suspected should have been little boys, were small. He’d always thought that the James boys were freakishly large, but the men that were beating the shit out of each other over food had been much, much bigger. Most every single one of them had been shirtless and all had been buff, making him feel scrawny and making him wonder if Rory thought he was scrawny. "
― R.L. Mathewson , Checkmate (Neighbor from Hell, #3)
