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Armand drank Canadian Club, doubles, good ones. He told himself it was to keep his mind alive, thoughts coming, as he had a conversation with himself and made some decisions. === His ambition was to rob a bank in every state of the union—…
Wayne told her there was no difference between being up forty feet or four hundred; go off from either height it would kill you. If you had to fall, he told her, try to do it inside the structure, because they decked in every other floor…
“Let me tell you something. You don’t ever leave things undone. You don’t ever think somebody’s not gonna remember you..." === “What’re you mad at?” “I’m not mad.” “What are you, then?” “I don’t know,” Carmen said. “If I find out I’ll tell…
“You said, ‘My wife’s a winner. That’s why I married her.’ “ “Yeah? What’s wrong with that?” “It’s like you’re taking credit, because you picked me.” “I was complimenting you, for Christ sake.” === “Hon, what are two adjacent states, one’s…
.... his expressions. Carmen believed he had three or four: deadpan, mouth open, this one and his gee-whiz grin. === I think of it now, the only job I ever had in my life was in the repo business and what’s that but legal stealing. === “A…
Wayne said, “What do you have?” getting some amazement in his tone. “Honey, you have me, don’t you?” The way she got up and grabbed the beer can from the night table, he knew she was going to throw it at him. === “You want me to talk to…
Ferris serious was annoying as Ferris grinning. === Dumb enough to be a TV star, he had the hair, the build, the fake boyish grin. . . . The only trouble was he was real. === “The only thing that was good about it, I met my present wife,…
No more spud wrenches and beaters. Now it was cowtails and hula hoops, chain slings, ratchets, the jewelry they used to tie barges up for a tow— three wide and five long on the Upper Miss on account of they have to pass through locks. But…
“You and her back together?” “Everything’s fine.” “Gee, I’m surprised,” Ferris said. “From the way she acted I thought, well, she either had enough of you or she wasn’t getting enough from you, one.” === “Your dad says, ‘You understand,…
“And I’ll tell you where we’re at. You’re gonna quit mouthing off, okay? You don’t, I’ll pound that glass eye into you so hard you’ll be using it to peek out your asshole.” === He could actually see a line where the two rivers met, the…
That fxcking Richie, he was like something stuck to the bottom of your shoe you couldn’t get rid of, like his chewing gum. === ... he had wanted to be a major-league ballplayer, but his deprived youth as an orphan had fxcked up his…