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The Con Job

Book by Matt Forbeck · 8 quotes · Leverage, Alec Hardison, Parker

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“He's not dead, Parker." He clenched his jaw so hard she could see the muscles working in it. "Are you just saying that to make me feel better?" "No, I'm saying it to make myself feel better.”

Leverage Parker Eliot Spencer

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“It struck Sophie that Comic-Con was something like a modern-day Brigadoon, a thriving city of a hundred and fifty thousand people that sprang up here in San Diego for less than a week every summer. People flocked to it from across the nation and around the world to populate it for its all-too-short existence, played their chosen roles, then dispersed back to their real homes as soon as the city disappeared. And the next summer, they'd do it all over again, forming a living history of their own in annual installments.”

San Diego Comic Con Leverage Sdcc Matt Forbeck

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“Why is it that men reduce themselves to one-liners and bad movie quotes whenever they get into a fight?" said Parker. "Is there some kind of script they're supposed to follow when they get to this point? Or does the raging testosterone just shut down their higher brain functions?”

Humor Leverage Parker Good Question

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“With great leverage comes great justice.”

Spider Man Leverage Nate Nathan Ford What They Do

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“Standing exposed on a rooftop, with no railing and the wind whipping about him, threatening to pull him flailing and screaming to the ground? That held no interest for him.”

Humor Leverage Hardison

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“They gave the world some of its finest heroes. Saving them's the least we can do.”

Leverage Hardison

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“You think we're going to turn you over to the law?" he said. "Oh, no, we're much more dangerous than that.”

Leverage Nate Nathan Ford

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“You're a lot of horrible things - untehical, sociopathic, evil even - but you're no idiot.”

Insight Leverage Cha0s

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