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1 " He felt like Rambo even though he was built like Dumbo "
― Lee Goldberg , Fake Truth (Ian Ludlow Thrillers #3)
2 " He had plump, rosy cheeks and a thin beard that looked like it had been drawn on his round, chubby face with a Sharpie to indicate that he actually had a chin. "
3 " They use the term ‘ripped from the headlines’ for their stories because it sounds a lot better than ‘plagiarized from the New York Times because we have no imagination. "
4 " Even when the couple disabled “location history” or “location services” in an app, their wishes were ignored. The couple was more closely monitored than a paroled child molester with a tamperproof GPS tracker around his ankle. "
5 " I’m not sure whether I’m losing my grip on reality,” he said. “Or if reality is losing its grip on us. "
6 " The only thing less secure than airplane Wi-Fi is running naked through Compton holding all of your money, jewelry, and credit cards in a baggie. "
7 " said he had a “unique artistic vision,” which wasn’t exactly a lie. His vision just happened to be shit. "
8 " writers instinctively tried to generate plots from events around them as a means of survival, the way a pigeon is always searching for food, pecking at everything in sight. A spy lacked the imagination or the drive for that kind of free-association creativity. "
9 " when foreigners used American profanity. The swear words always seemed too big to fit in their mouths and were spit out rather than spoken, like a glob of tough meat they couldn’t chew and didn’t dare try to swallow. "
10 " There are decades where nothing happens,” Edney said. “And there are weeks where decades happen,” Beth said, completing the Lenin quote that was their coded introduction. "
11 " If you have to tell someone you’re powerful and famous, then either you aren’t or you’re embarrassingly insecure. "
12 " the world learned that Lady Liberty will shove her torch of freedom up your ass if you fuck with us. "
13 " The Americans went into Pakistan to shoot that camel-fucker. Compared to that, crossing the US-Mexico border to cap him would be as risky as the secretary of defense sending a secretary to Starbucks to get him a latte. "
14 " He never was. It’s the rest of us who are delusional,” Ian said. “We blithely go through life pretending that we’re anonymous, that nobody cares what we are doing, saying, reading, or thinking when we know that all the electronic devices we have are constantly spying on us but we tell ourselves they aren’t. "
15 " Get the United States to start a war so they won’t intrude in yours. "
16 " Syria, Virginia. "
17 " He was a clean-cut man in his fifties who appeared so wholesome that Ian was sure he could pass as a high school teacher, a Mormon missionary, or the reliable love interest in one of those Hallmark Channel movies. "
18 " The cabin was like a production designer’s idea of a mountain retreat. All that was missing was an elk’s head mounted on the stone fireplace. "
19 " don’t know how much of this book has become reality in the time between when I finished writing it and when it ended up in your hands. My fear is that a lot of it has . . "
20 " Cannon, whose given name was Floyd Gruber, wore an elaborately embroidered Japanese silk kimono over his three-hundred-pound girth, and his crude oil black hair was tied into a tight man bun. "