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1 " Pull up a step, Ace,” I told him. He did, but he had the fidgets. He kept looking for his lucky exit. I told him, “I didn’t really want you. But I can’t get ahold of Winger.” Not that I’d tried. “What? Who?” “Your girlfriend. Big blond goof with no common sense, always has an angle, never tells the truth if a lie will do. Her.” “Part of that fits everybody in this thing,” Morley said. “Even up on the Hill, they turned the truth to quicksilver.” “Untruths, too.” “Quicksilver lies. I like that.” “Deadly quicksilver lies.” I spotted friend C.J. Carlyle. “Look who missed the slaughter at Maggie Jenn’s place. "
― Glen Cook , Deadly Quicksilver Lies (Garrett Files, #7)
2 " The fugitive blew through a doorway. I was only two steps behind, but when I got there the door was closed and locked. I flung one granite shoulder against it. It gave about a thousandth of an inch. “You do it.” Morley indicated Slither. “Stop whimpering, Garrett.” “I dislocated everything but my ankle bones.” Slither knocked on the door with his very large feet, smashing away numerous times before he risked his own tender shoulder. The door exploded like stage furniture. Guess you have to have the knack. "
