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My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear (“Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires!”) signs along the state roads. One cigarette butt flicked out a passing car window and there’d be real hell to pay.

~ Ed Lynskey

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Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore.

~ Richard Brautigan

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He stood at the entrance to the kitchen, blocking my path to the front door like the Berlin Wall. -- Least Wanted

~ Debbi Mack

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I've never been a morning person, and if it's one thing I don't need before my first cup of coffee, it's a visit from the cops. But at eight forty-five on a Friday morning, two of them waited for me at my law office.

~ Debbi Mack

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In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin’s roofline a bursting fireball.

~ Ed Lynskey

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Just the night before, a puma’s howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn’t get any richer than that.

~ Ed Lynskey

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How the Hell is it we go to pick up Jenna Jameson and end up with the fucking chick from those Kill Bill movies?

~ Todd Morr

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Personality is a piece of paper that folds in to conceal different sides and display others, like an Origami

~ Alejandro Colliard

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I let my gaze travel out the picture window. Unlike at my old doublewide trailer perched on the fringe of a played out quarry, here I owned a real yard with real grass that screamed for mowing each Monday a.m. I sat at the kitchen table, cooling off from just having finished this week's job. Yes, here in 2005, I was a full-fledged suburbanite, but I'd been called worse.

~ Ed Lynskey

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Quote taken from Chapter 1: That's the idea. Listen, Frank, this one is different. She's a keeper. He let that part gel in me. Get your head screwed on straight and move to Richmond. You hate it living in Pelham.

~ Ed Lynskey

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I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

~ James M. Cain

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Get a load of this, Frank.” Gerald Peyton’s pause set off his pronouncement. “She is expecting to get a wedding ring.”“That’s understandable,” I said, unsure how he could afford a ring on what our firm cleared. Diamond rings—more sold in December than in any other month of the year—went for a cool grand per karat. Weeks ago, I’d priced them—again—for my domestic situation. “What seems to be the problem?”“That’s a big leap for me to make.”“I expect you’ll make it with room to spare.

~ Ed Lynskey

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A diamond wedding ring, you say?”I studied his face. Was he putting me on? He looked earnest. “As any guy would expect, a diamond is what she’s after,” I said. “Did you hold out hope you’d get by for anything less?

~ Ed Lynskey

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