"Who ... what are they?" "My pride and glory," Alex said fondly. "Betty and Lucy Coltrane. Best damned bouncers in the business. Though of course I'd never tell them that. Fiercer than pit bulls and cheaper to run. Married to each other. They had a dog once, but they ate it."

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Source : Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.37, Penguin

Simon R. Green

#Running Quotes #Dog Quotes #Pride Quotes

“It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.”
“The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.”

Source : Sholem Asch (1941). “What I Believe”
“Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.”
“An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only," she wrote, "you had also forgotten your heart! I should never have let you have it back.”
“As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
“The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.”
“This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.”
“Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul,”

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