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1 " his T-shirt had words printed on it, so he was probably the brains of the outfit. "
― W. Bruce Cameron , The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man (Ruddy McCann #1)
2 " I just woke up by the side of the road in the dark like I’d been dumped there by the Mafia, but you take your time explaining, that’s fine with me. "
3 " You’ve been using my body when I was asleep? "
4 " What’s wrong with that? You’re getting exercise in your sleep. We’re up to five sets of fifty push-ups, three hundred sit-ups, and a run every night. "
5 " You’ve been driving in my sleep? Do you have any idea how dangerous that is? "
6 " I’ve got a voice of a dead man in my head who is trying to take over my body! "
7 " Funeral notice in the paper.” “I still don’t know who you’re talking about,” the other ice fisherman groused. “Dressed funny,” the guy at the other table recalled. "
8 " if I went through life only talking to people who were glad to see me, I wouldn’t be much of a repo man, now would I? "
9 " I’d had two fights in the past couple of hours; won one, lost one (to a bird) "
10 " Come on, Alan, you want me to believe you’ve been asleep for eight years? Nobody’s that depressed. "
11 " How do you convince your split personality that he’s not real? "
12 " Oh, that’s just great, Alan. You come into my head, you start calling me “we,” when I sleep at night you’re driving around in my truck, and you think it’s a bad idea to mess with other people’s lives? "
13 " Sometimes that happens to us, way before we’re ready, a moment that changes everything. Life will be going along, like normal, and then one day without warning you find out that nothing will ever be the same. "
14 " Being a repo man requires what Milt calls “nerves of stupidity”: "
15 " I’ll splatter whatever I want, whenever I want, "
16 " Women,” he snorted. “Can’t live with ’em, can’t return ’em for a full refund. "
17 " You got a voice in your head named Alan? "
18 " I stopped walking and faced a small snowman some children had built so that anyone watching would assume I was arguing with it and not with a voice in my head like some crazy person. "
19 " Wilma stood in front of our table, her crazy bejeweled earrings flashing like lightning. I "
20 " I’d been outsmarted by a man who named his goose Doris and thought it was a duck. "