“Terrible goddamn place. Some days it's like some bastard nailed a ticket for the bus tour down to fucking Hell to the front of my brain. For every wild everything-depends-on-it first-week-of-being-madly-in-love kiss on a streetcorner, for every beautiful woman stopping to feel the sun on her face and every child dancing in clean rain, there's a kid living in its own shit in a dumpster somewhere while Daddy sells his ass for milk money, tanks breaking down unwanted houses just to stop homeless people squatting there... Time was this place didn't make sense and I could live with it. Either it's changed, or I have. There's all the good things on this ticket, and pure fucking evil too. And all the same, I'm going down with you.”
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Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City
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Warren Ellis
Warren Ellis is a British author known for his work in comics, novels, and screenplays. Born on February 16, 1968, he is a prolific writer with a diverse range of interests, including science fiction, fantasy, and crime novels. more
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