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The Mexican Tree Duck (C.W. Sughrue, #2)

by James Crumley

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Solar Lottery by Philip K. Dick

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“I’m a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I’m so sick I think everybody else is sick and I’m the only healthy person. That’s pretty bad off, isn’t it?”

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“Animosity hung between them like a two-edged sword; neither of them could use it without first getting hurt herself.”
― Margaret Millar, Beast In View

tags: animosity, daughters, family, mothers, mothers-and-daughters, psychological-thriller, psychology

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“Art can’t decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it’s a tragic, bloody farce.”
― Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog

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“Looking back, I know that the man possessed no gift of prophecy; he simply worked to assure his own future, while I skated uncertainly toward mine. It was his flat-voiced "Cherchez la femme" that still haunts me. Because our partnership was nothing but a bungling road to the Dahlia. And in the end, she was to own the two of us completely. ”
― James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia

tags: crime, detective, extraordinary, noir

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“A Man Down Is Not a Man Dead. Leave No Stack Behind.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Broken Angels

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“They exploit, and deal, and shift ground constantly, but for all that you can get used to them. You can get used to their gleaming company towers and their nanocopter security, their cartels and their HOGs, their stretched-over-centuries unhuman patience and their assumed inheritance of godfather status for the human race. You can get so you're grateful for the there-but-for-the-grace-of-God relief of whatever little flange of existence they afford you on the corporate platform. You can get so it seems eminently preferable to a cold gut-swooping drop into the human chaos waiting below.

You can get so you're grateful.

Got to watch out for that.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Broken Angels

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