“What’d you need?" "Desuetude." "Reading again, are we? Could be dangerous. It means to become unaccustomed to. As in something gets discontinued, falls into disuse." "Thanks, man." "That it?" "Yeah, but we should grab a drink sometime.” — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“You're not very good at this, are you?' 'At what I do, I'm the best. This isn't what I do.” — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life,” Standard said. “Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.” — James Sallis Copy Share Image
The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors. — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“Some brainless comedy where actors with perfect white teeth spoke their lines then froze in place to let the laugh track unwind.” — James Sallis Copy Share Image
He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“In my junior year I discovered books. . . . Devoured [them] the way other kids did candy or sandwiches, spent days hunched over… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“We're professionals. People make deals, they need to stick to them. That's the way it works, if it's going to work at all.” — James Sallis Copy Share Image
Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup.… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“We aren’t angels. Angels couldn’t breathe the air down here. They’d die.” — James Sallis Copy Share Image
Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s. — James Sallis Copy Share Image
What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in: 'There's a… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
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