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“The government is not coming clean that these mutant viruses are probably going to increase, not decrease, as they appear to be coming out of a rapidly changing environment.”

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“As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could not tell you for sure why they strapped Santa to a cross. Had he missed a house? Had a good little girl somewhere in the world not received the doll he’d promised her, making the father angry?” (p.3)”

Father House Jesus Santa Coke Pepsi Doll Little Girl Young Child

Book:You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

Source: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

“That was the first time I did coke. My body, it was electric. For the first time in my life I felt as if I had a real heart and a real body and I knew that there was this fire in me that could have lit up the entire universe. No book had ever made me feel that way. No human being had ever made me feel like that.”

Drugs Coke Feeling Alive Being High

Book:Last Night I Sang to the Monster

Source: Last Night I Sang to the Monster

“I didn't like Dali: now, like you, I do. Like you, I began to drink my Coke with a pinch of salt . Like you, I stopped bothering about ironed clothes. Like you, I sit with a dictionary while reading the papers. Like you, I sit on the compound wall after a bath.”

Love Wall Drink Salt Person Like Coke Bath Dali

Book:Cobalt Blue

Source: Cobalt Blue

“What would she have? Coke, said Annie. And when she tasted the familiar drink, how much less scary the world was, and how much less frightening her task.”

Coke

Book:Out of Time

Source: Out of Time

“And you know what happened next in my dream? Dick Cheney and I said the same thing at the same time: "Well, we had a Cold War to win." And then I screamed at him: "I KNEW you would say that! You ALWAYS say that!" But then, since Cheney and I made the same remark at the same time, I realized he owed me a Coke. So I said, "Jinx! You owe me a Coke!" And Vice-President Dick Cheney smiled sheepishly. *Shudder*... I don't even DRINK coke. I tastes like robot sweat.”

Sweat Cold War Coke Robot Jinx Dick Cheney David Rees

Book:Get Your War On II

Source: Get Your War On II

“There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first and foremost, could drink a Coke at whim.”

Fiction Adulthood Coke Coca Cola

Book:Open City

Source: Open City

“In our opinion, Coke is great from a can, still good from a bottle, yet hard to get just right from the fountain. But oh, when they do get it right, it tastes good enough to be an eighth wonder of the world.”

Country Coke Soda Wildflower

Book:Wildflower

Source: Wildflower

“That smoke can choke when fire is provoked is no joke. However, you can revoke a minor fire with coke. The yoke may be arduous but it does stroke it down.”

Fire Smoke Coke

Book:Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“I went to the butcher and the farm stands yesterday. I brined my chicken for four hours, set the alarm, and then did a buttermilk soak for another four. The chicken will be spectacular. I drove out to this liquor store off I-35 that I know sells the real Cokes- in beautiful glass bottles from Mexico. Purists believe Mexican Coke is far better because they use refined cane sugar, not high-fructose corn syrup. I am one of these purists. I also purchase Coke in a can and the regular American Coke, which is in one of those beautiful light green glass bottles that's Americana personified.”

Mexican Coke Food Preparation Purist

Book:Nowhere But Home

Source: Nowhere But Home

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