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1 " After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer and looked again, and found half a loaf of whole wheat bread behind the beer in the back of the refrigerator... "
― Robert B. Parker , Mortal Stakes (Spenser, #3)
2 " Yeah. Floyd is his batman."His what?"Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant."You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know. "
3 " There is excitement in a new kiss, but there is a quality of memory and intimacy in kissing someone you’ve kissed often before. I "
4 " I kissed her. There is excitement in a new kiss, but there is a quality of memory and intimacy in kissing someone you’ve kissed often before. I liked the quality. Maybe continuity is better than change. "
5 " There is a knife blade in the grass,” I said. “And a tiger lies just outside the fire.” “My God, Spenser, that’s bathetic. Either tell me about what hurts or don’t. But for crissake, don’t sit here and quote bad verse at me.” “Oh damn,” I said. “I was just going to swing into Hamlet.” “You do and I’ll call the cops.” “Okay,” I said. “You’re right. But bathetic? That’s hard, Suze. "