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1 " I’m not a huge fan of other people’s logic. "
― Richard Kadrey , Killing Pretty (Sandman Slim, #7)
2 " Maybe home isn’t the place you love, just the place you know best. "
3 " I once considered learning to love iced coffee, but then I remembered I’d have to kill myself, so I gave up the idea. "
4 " I hate this place. You can’t get a cup of coffee unless it has a backstory and a pedigree so the café can charge you as much for the cup as a normal human pays for dinner. Women drive by in cute little sports cars with more power under the hood than a Saturn V, but the speedometer will never top twenty because then they might not be seen and admired. Men window-shop in silk jackets made by indentured servants in countries they’ve never heard of while their sons all imagine they’re Tupac because they bought their thousand-dollar designer jeans a couple of sizes too big. "
5 " And his first name. Jeffrey spelled Geoffrey. Never trust a Geoffrey. Either they’re pretentious pricks or bitter that the family spelled their name funny. "
6 " The 405 is one breakdown away from turning into the Donner Party. "
7 " LOS ANGELES IS a busted jukebox in a forgotten bar at the ass end of the high desert. The city only exists between the pops, skips, and scratches of the old 45s. "
8 " Once angels get an idea in their head, there’s no arguing with them. Like cops and people who listen to reggae. "
9 " This might be the end of the world as we know it, but it’s still show biz. "
10 " give Death a look. “You had to wait till now to bring this up. You just took a massive shit all over our feel-good moment.” “I know,” says Death. “I’m somewhat famous for that. "
11 " You’re goddamn paranoid. You should see someone about that.” “I tried, but she kept writing things down. It made me more paranoid. "
