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Suffering Fools

Book by Allie Ray · 10 quotes · Almost, Anger, Antihero

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“And Coop didn't know how to explain to him--what it is to be desperate. To have to thread survival using the hair off your own head because even string is a luxury sometimes.”

Poverty Survival Resourcefulness Thinking On Your Feet

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“May you die of French pox and rot in hell and all of that--it's the middle of the night and I don't give a trifling fuck anymore.”

Hell Insults Pox

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“Diamond earrings are only worth a thousand dollars if the fellow paying for 'em's got a thousand dollars. If you desperate enough, thousand-dollar earrings turn into hundred-dollar earrings. Ten-dollar earrings. Loaf-of-bread-dollar earrings. Just like that.”

Money Survive Bartering

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“She could have him swinging from the trees by nightfall--he wanted to do so much more than kiss her now.”

Dangerous Danger Lust Kiss

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“And Kitty knew as well as anyone, the throbbing tedium of almost.”

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“Coop opens his mouth and his lips tremble. Tremble. Tremble. Words course and roll somewhere inside him, boiling always inside him. A hot kettle bleeding, blurring smoke. Buckle. Pop. Rumble. Always, always deep inside him, a moment--a look--a word--a thought away from bursting over in a fit of steam.”

Anger Steam Burn Boil

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“Do you know, every time I thought I'd cut you.”

Knife Razor Cut

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“All right." Kitty took a breath. "To whoever--" "You mean whomever." Kitty's eyes narrowed. "Whatever.”

Grammar Grammar Humor Whom

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“They're goddamn swindlers, you know," he murmurs. Murphy frowns, and Coop meets his eyes. "Know me word ain't work the price of rope. But them two are fucking swindlers; don't forget it.”

Mystery Crime Suspense Swindlers Hustlers

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“He sits ramrod straight, like a man beaten out of slouching and twitching as a boy. Like a man of gentility, unaccustomed to dark corners and dank basements--at least from this side of them. He does not seem exactly unfamiliar with the unsightly. With the putrid. And maybe that's only from having to scrounge out a living in it, now that he's lost everything--a man of misfortunes. Maybe it's because at another time, he was the man with the power to snuff things out in the dark.”

Darkness Antihero

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