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Dead of Night

Jonathan Maberry

Top 10 Best Quotes

“She looked like a character from a video game. One of those improbably busty, impossibly well-armed superchicks who could do acrobatics and hit the kill zone even while firing guns from both hands during a cartwheel. "You look fucking ridiculous," she told herself.”

“Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.”

“His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a monster such as this. A person who delights in your pain. A person to whom your screams are more delicious than a lover's whisper. A creature who knows how to keep you alive while he skillfully and meticulously deconstructs those things that define you as human?”

“Yippie ki-yay and all that shit" - Desdemona Fox”

“She knew a couple of writers. They were always broke.”

“All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure with evil. -SOPHOCLES”

“Who’d play her in the movie?” “The shark from Jaws,” muttered Trout.”

“She agreed with Mark Twain that golf was a “good walk spoiled.”

“Goat made no move to get out. "Billy...this is nuts." "Yeah, well we left 'sane and normal' behind the first time Volker said 'zombie”

“And that made him wonder if a person who is forced into bad situations over and over again when they’re too weak or helpless to do anything about it will eventually make bad choices of their own simply because they’ve become habituated to them.”

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Book Keywords:

journalism, women, video-games, humor, reporters

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