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“Invisible magpies warbled in the plane trees. Softly, gently, never running out of melodic ideas, they perched among the leaves and spun out their endless tales.”

Book:Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law

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“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

“A good leg will fall. A straight back will stoop. A black beard will turn white. A curled pate will grow bald." He held out a small triangle of fruit toward Emilia. "But a good heart, my dear... well, a good heart is the sun and the moon.”

Heart Age Time Sun And Moon

Book:By Any Other Name

Source: By Any Other Name

“Just remember, this is a collaborative effort. We don't have time for creative differences or outbreaks of artistic integrity.”

Writing Humor Leverage Nate Nathan Ford Co Writing

Book:The Bestseller Job

Source: The Bestseller Job

“You people did a good thing." "That's what we do," Nate said quietly.”

Leverage Nate Nathan Ford

Book:The Zoo Job

Source: The Zoo Job

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