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1 " Because there was something to be said for going through life in a fog. In the fog, you couldn’t see the monsters coming. "
― Scott Nicholson , The Red Church (Sheriff Frank Littlefield, #1)
2 " The end was right up close and personal, different for each person, a kick in the rear and a joy-buzzer handshake from the Reaper himself. But "
3 " You put a weasel in a forty-dollar suit, and you get a forty-dollar weasel. "
4 " Can a body love something so much that her heart aches with the loving? "
5 " You had to hand it to the devil: long odds never dampened his enthusiasm one bit. David "
6 " Heaven looked like a lonely place. And "
7 " all a pretty face does is hide the ugly underneath, don’t it? "
8 " Because all a pretty face does is hide the ugly underneath, don’t it? "
9 " God had made a pretty good stew, then He’d screwed it up by mixing in humans and giving them free will and brains. Brains. "
10 " When you have one of those waking nightmares, when you think bad things in the dark and can’t go to sleep, you think happy thoughts. Cartoon dogs, fat clowns, things like that. Except sometimes the cartoon dogs bite and the fat clowns grow sharp smiles. Happy "
11 " I haven’t seen this much blood since those driver’s ed films they showed in high school. "
12 " Lying, like marksmanship and tomato growing, got easier with practice. He "
13 " No wonder these creatures sinned. No wonder they sought refuge in lust and depravity and excess. They were God’s mistakes. "
14 " A killer’s instinct was as easily packed away in a U-Haul as a fitness machine or a golf cart was. He’d "