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“Doakes had a first name! It was Albert - had anyone ever really called him that? Unthinkable. I had assumed his name was Sergeant.”
“It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.”
“How bad could things be if my hair was neat?”
“This was just no fun. I wanted my brain back.”
“The mission sat in a converted store front on the corner of a medium-busy street. There was a small crowd gathered in front - no real surprise, since they gave out food and clothing, all all you ha...”
“Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.”
“Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.”
“Always marveling at how New Age pseudo-philosophy had taken over the Internet.”
“And I was having too much fun to stop now.”
“Me, feeling. What a concept.”
“My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.”
“I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?”
“I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be pe...”
“No blood at all. I could hear that phrase repeat itself in my head, louder each time. No sticky, hot, messy, awful blood. No splatter. NO BLOOD AT ALL. Why hadn't I thought of that?”
“Or was he saying, "Hi! Wanna play?"And I did. Of course I did.”
“I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.”
“For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.”
