“If she moved back an inch, she’d surely bump into his rock hard erection.”
“By all accounts, she should be dead, but she was moving. How was that even possible?”
“It was becoming a very dark day for the NYPD.”
“It seemed the proverbial shit had hit the fan.”
“But I promise you, you guys can do it. In four days you ll be the happiest person Earth has ever seen. You ll stand by the ocean and feel the salty sea spray tingling in your nose. You ll be with people you know and love, and you all appreciate how beautiful everything is. You ll see cars behind you in your rear view mirror, and maybe you ll laugh at the driver s faces. Because they ll look annoyed, bored, angry. And you ll realize what they re missing. You ll live a long and happy life, Mia. Because when you get home, you ll realize that anything is possible. You mustn t ever forget that.”
“When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed. I was travelling in a parched and terrible valley under the moon, and afar I saw it protruding uncannily above the sands as parts of a corpse may protrude from an ill-made grave. Fear spoke from the age-worn stones of this hoary survivor of the deluge, this great-grandmother of the eldest pyramid; and a viewless aura repelled me and bade me retreat from antique and sinister secrets that no man should see, and no man else had ever dared to see.”
“Brace d inverno, I capelli tuoi, Dove il mio cuore brucia.”
“Way I look at it, you get to a point in your life when you turn a corner and realise that’s about all you’re gonna get. If you can face down that knowledge and not crack open a bottle, well, you’re a better person than I am. If I make it to eighty I intend to start smoking again.”