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1 " Jesus Christ.” The fury on Nick’s face was enough to send me reeling and he hit the table hard enough with his hand that it made the plates and the silverware on the table bounce and clatter. “You give me the names and approximate location of those men who gave you that ultimatum and I’ll kill every goddamned one of them.”I sighed before I said quietly. “I already did. "
― Cheyenne McCray , The First Sin (Lexi Steele, #1)
2 " He hated the blue platter his mother served from, and the salt and pepper shakers, which were glass with red tops, and he hated the silverware designed in flowers, some pieces scratched almost beyond recognition. He even hated the round table and the succession of tablecloths, one pale blue with yellow leaves, one white with red and orange squares. He hated the uncomfortable chairs, particularly his own, where he sat squirming, and he hated his family and the way they talked. "
― Shirley Jackson , The Road Through the Wall
3 " If you were smart," Genghis said, " you would have borrowed the silverware of one of your friends." " We never thought of that," Klaus said. When one is forced to tell atrocious lies, one often feels a guilty flutter in one's stomach, and Klaus felt such a flutter now. " You certainly are an intelligent man." " Not only am I intelligent," Genghis agreed, " but I'm also very smart. "
