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61 " Geryon looks at me like I’m a moldy ham sandwich someone forgot in the back of the fridge at work. "
― Richard Kadrey , The Kill Society (Sandman Slim, #9)
62 " The case is caked with dirt and rattier looking than Karloff in The Mummy. "
63 " When she leaves I look from Daja to the Magistrate. “I think your pet monkey is getting tired. Why don’t you throw it a banana and send it home? "
64 " So, this really is a crusade after all. And now I’m part of it. Hallelujah. "
65 " It would be simpler than dealing with this sideshow. "
66 " I know a killer when I see one and he’s one cold Charlie Starkweather motherfucker. "
67 " The smaller Hellion was in sleeveless black robes. Every inch of visible skin was tattooed in sacred Hellion script, like he’d been mugged by the tiniest graffiti crew in the universe. Big Boy looked like the Hulk’s runt cousin in rubber overalls. Dangling from his thick leather belt were enough vicious-looking tools to give Torquemada the vapors. "
68 " Hellions look sort of like the little demons in that Hieronymus Bosch painting The Garden of Earthly Delights. Some look pretty human. Some look like the green devils on old absinthe bottles. Some are like what monsters puke up after a long weekend of eating other monsters. Buer looks like a cuttlefish in a Hugo Boss suit and smells like a pet-store Dumpster. "
69 " The angel makes a sharp turn and shoots back at me. I shout some Hellion hoodoo and it has about as much effect as reading cupcake recipes to a lobster. "
70 " I prefer Abomination. It fits better on a T-shirt. I’d comp you one, but we don’t have any big enough for your ego. "
71 " Pale vines follow me as I walk, cooing and sighing, hoping I have oatmeal for brains and will get close enough that they can drag me off and eat me at their leisure. And at the center of all this treacherous merriment is a skeleton tree. It’s sturdier than the others we’ve seen. Taller and thicker. Its branches are as big around as my leg. "
72 " Oh God. It’s like you’re smoking a pig’s ass, and the pig isn’t well. "
73 " You mean there are miserable, depressed assholes in Heaven, too?” “Of course.” “A lot?” “Enough.” “And they piss everyone off?” “They sure do.” “Good.” She bumps her shoulder into mine. “It’s nice to see you. "
74 " I don’t seem to be alone anymore.” “Very well,” says Vehuel. “We’d like—” “Shh,” he says, holding up a hand. “I’m trying to count.” “Of course,” Vehuel says in a tone that makes it pretty obvious she’s not used to getting shushed. "
75 " Instead they’re crying like a school bus full of little French girls whose ice cream all melted. "
76 " Mimir sucks in the smoke and suddenly I want another Malediction. Her eyes roll back in her head. She begins to shake. She mumbles something unintelligible, like she’s chanting or speaking in tongues. It’s your basic oracle carny act. I’ve seen a million of them. They always look like they’re about to have an aneurysm. If they didn’t, the rubes wouldn’t think they were getting their money’s worth. "
77 " I’m Satan. I can deal with that and play “Smoke on the Water” while getting a lap dance on a runaway train all at the same time. "
78 " This fire is a big deal. A huge deal. A giant, flaming, goddamn, piece-of-shit, agonizing, I-want-to-rip-my-own-head-off deal. "
79 " I’m sweating like a hog tap-dancing in a sauna. "
80 " My ass and back ache like someone gave me a baseball-bat massage. "