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1 " And send not to ask for whom the fucking bell tolls, because you're not going to like the answer. "
― Mike Carey , Vicious Circle (Felix Castor, #2)
2 " At least the smoke would give me a little cover; it was also choking me, making my eyes water and my lungs ache and spasm with each breath, but you can't have everything. "
3 " That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules. "
4 " Words are the birds that break cover and show your enemy where you're hiding. "
5 " Dead, blank, empty air surrounded me, like the moment after the fridge stops humming and you think the silence is a new sound. "
6 " The stairwell smelled of piss and stale beer—two stages in a conjugation that usually ends with “dead-drunk guy facedown in his own vomit. "
7 " Suburban transcendence for the Ikea age. "
8 " It was a beautiful day. About time. Way past time. But if the sunlight knew what the fuck it was shining on, would it bother to make the trip? "
9 " The only consolation was that - to the religious mind - adversity is good for the soul. "
10 " But Susan didn’t have a yellow pages, so she’d gone online instead, and Juliet’s Web site had been the first to come up. I wasn’t surprised. It was sometimes the first to come up when your search string was “Chinese restaurants” or “plumbers.” I was pretty sure she’d done something to Google that was both illegal and supernatural. "
11 " I was tied to this place by the loose elastic of ancient guilt, and every so often the pull became too insistent to ignore. "
12 " No doubt about it, I was a mess. I needed to go and lie down in a darkened room until my body decided to let me off the hook for the abuse I’d subjected it to over the past couple of days. "
13 " Y la verdad es, chico, que no vas a hacer nada. Al menos ahora. Hacer cosas es un lujo que sólo se permiten los vivos. Los muertos... bueno, más que nada, miran. "
14 " Soy ateo [...] sobre todo porque no puedo soportar la contradicción de que a un Dios omnipotente se le ocurriera montar un mundo tan mal hecho como este. "
15 " A burning church full of dead men in black gowns. Another one, in red, lying dead outside. And you, kneeling next to a woman who's been tied up with duct tape.""I admit that looks fairly suspicious at first glance," I said. "