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“Time does not stop but it rises, becoming out of reach.”

Book:Grief Is for People

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Grief Is for People

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Sloane Crosley

Sloane Crosley is an American writer born on August 3, 1978. Her works are known for their humor and unique perspective, mainly focusing on personal experiences and everyday life. more

“Vending innovation isn't dead. Some machines use facial recognition software to guess which drink you're in the mood for (based mostly on your gender and the time of day, I was told). Iris and I always liked to stop at the machine on the Nakano Station platform that dispensed slushy iced drinks like cocoa-strawberry, matcha, and Ramune. (Ramune is a soda known for its unusual bottle, which has a glass marble in the neck, and for coming in various flavors like orange, red, and blue, all of which taste the same to me.)”

Flavors Vending Machine Slushie Machine

Book:Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo

Source: Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo

“I can follow pretty much every programming language out there, I can make a two-hundred-year-old diary out of some really nasty ingredients, I can even make sense out of the instruction booklets that come with IKEA furniture, but I can*not* make heads or tails of this nonsense right here.”

Humor Leverage Ikea Hardison Insurance Contract

Book:The Zoo Job

Source: The Zoo Job

“Hardison held up a gigantic bag that Parker could have used as a dress. "I picked up all sorts of things," he said with a smile. "I grabbed the entire run of Chew, and I savaged the first trade paperback for the Magic: The Gathering comic, signed by the writer, no less.”

Hardison Author Self Insertion

Book:The Con Job

Source: The Con Job

“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

Book:The Con Job

Source: The Con Job

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

Leverage Hardison

Book:The Con Job

Source: The Con Job

“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

Book:The Con Job

Source: The Con Job

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