"Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest never hit home this hard. Reading of Eddie Perlmutter's exploits is like rolling in an aisle paved with broken glass and wanting to do it all over again two minutes later."

-- Loren D. Estleman

#Reading Quotes #Home Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.”
“I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.”
“I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.”
“For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me.”

Source : Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.170, Penguin
“Looking at suicideâ€”the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behindâ€”is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science, or in the success of governments, there is a matching and terrible reality of the deaths themselves: the young deaths, the violent deaths, the unnecessary deaths”
“One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.”
“Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.”
“It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.”

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