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1 " I don't do romance, in the same way I don't do heroin Russian roulette, or nude alligator wrestling. I consider all of the above self-destructive, and demeaning and these are things up with which I will not put. "
― D.D. Barant , Dying Bites (The Bloodhound Files, #1)
2 " I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing. "
3 " You can't do that kind of thing normally, but normal dumped without a note nearly a month ago. These days, I'll happily set fire to a bridge the second after I've crossed it - I don't plan on being around for the consequences to catch up with me. "
4 " I look over at him. He stares straight ahead."So," I say. "Golem, huh?""I prefer the term 'Mineral-American. "
5 " Is that a scanning electron microscope? “This’ll do, pig, this’ll do,” I murmur.“Excuse me?”“Sorry. Film reference, wasn’t meant as an insult.”“Ah. I see.” His tone tells me he clearly doesn’t. I briefly consider educating him, but explaining a movieabout a talking pig who wants to be a sheepdog to a Japanese vampire just isn’t all that high on my to-dolist. "
6 " I talk better when I’m drinking coffee.” “Me, too. If by coffee you mean beer, and by better you mean louder. "
7 " My backup plan is to challenge Bearbreaker to single combat, defeat him, become Queen of the Zerkers and spend the rest of my life riding a giant motorcycle over frozen tundra. "
8 " Visions of were-chihuahuas dance in my mind. I think they're doing the Macarena, but it's hard to tell. "
9 " If you think the planet and everything on it is here for your own personal use, then I guess the pain and suffering of other living beings doesn’t matter much. "
