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1 " She looks like she just saw a ghost, a unicorn, and Hello Kitty having a three-way in a clown car and they didn’t invite her. I "
― Richard Kadrey , The Kill Society (Sandman Slim, #9)
2 " I’m on the edge of vomiting up everything I ever ate since childhood, strained peas to chicken and waffles. Damn. Wrong memories. My stomach starts doing a hillbilly two-step. "
3 " She looks like she just saw a ghost, a unicorn, and Hello Kitty having a three-way in a clown car and they didn’t invite her. "
4 " Nothing good has ever come from anything that begins with “God has a message for you. "
5 " So far, being dead is about as much fun as a barbed-wire G-string. Yes, there is such a thing. They invented it in Hell, which is where I am. I already said I was dead. Where else would I be? Try to keep up. "
6 " What’s a shvitz?” he yells. “Really? You’re driving up Hell’s asshole with these Grease rejects and that’s the first thing that falls out of your skull? "
7 " I’d rather watch you do the backstroke in lava. "
8 " For a second, nothing happens and I’m sure that I’ve reached a new level of fucked. Then the hardpack around the rib shatters and I haul it out of the ground like a deranged Fred Flintstone. "
9 " Horned Toad’s pal, the baby face in the jeep, is running at me, firing the rifle. I guess he’s upset because he hasn’t grasped the fact that it’s really hard to hit anything when you’re running and your gun is bouncing around like a rubber duck in a typhoon. "
10 " The way he’s shooting, he couldn’t hit the sky from a weather balloon. "
11 " It explodes with an extremely satisfying whoomp. Satisfying to me, at least. It would be nice to think that the screams from the burning Hellion are him cheering me on for making such a great shot, but that’s probably too much to hope for. "
12 " I’ve swallowed enough sand that I’m going to shit cinder blocks. "
13 " And if he’s found guilty?” “Then his fate will be that of all the ignobles. "
14 " That’s where you’re wrong. When a tidal wave washes out the luau, you surf it and look for land. "
15 " Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.” “Then you’ll fit in just fine around here,” he says. "
16 " We follow Daja to a Hellion motor home. It looks less like something your grandparents would drive to the Grand Canyon and more like a Gothic mansion on wheels—one designed by insects and decorated by something with more tentacles than taste. Hellion chic. Daja opens the door and we go in. "
17 " Maybe I’ll live long enough to find out. The way the day is going, though, I’ll be lucky to make it through the appetizer course. "
18 " I down whatever’s in the glass, though, because at this point I’d drink paint thinner out of a hobo’s galoshes. "
19 " She hands me back the bottle. The stuff we’re drinking is vile. Greasy and fishy, but even flounder-flavored turpentine will taste good when it’s the only drink in town. "
20 " What happened to your face?” she says. She pulls down my shirt a few inches. Spots more scars. “And the rest of you.” “Never follow a foul ball into a wood chipper,” I say. “We didn’t even win the game. "