Small talk Quote by Andrew Michael Hurley

“The truth was, I didn't feel sorry for Billy. He teased a dog and got his fingers bitten off. Fuck him. Fuck everybody.”

— David Wong

“So Billy uncorked it with his thumbs. It didn’t make a pop. The champagne was dead. So it goes.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“When I was really drunk, I started that stupid business with the bullet in my guts again. I was the only guy at the…

— Nick Flynn

“Billy was a hardscrabble country boy, maybe forty years old, lean and furtive, like a fox and a squirrel had a kid, and spent…

— Lee Child

“Billy said shaking his head. “I sat there with his daughter and watched him lose his life. I could have done something, but didn’t.”

— Jazmyne

“Billy now leaned over that parapat, looked down at all the people moving hither and yon. They were jerky little scissors. They were a…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“He can hit a man in the liver so the blood flow stops. It takes a full second before the pain registers and the…

— Adam Berlin

“Billy covered his head with his blanket again. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Billy got off his lounge chair now, went into the bathroom and took a leak. The crowd went wild.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He sure as hell hadn’t expected to walk into the middle of a standoff between a big bruiser and a short redhead who prepared…

— Katherine McIntyre

“No one likes sarcasm, Miss Cain. I’ve merely delayed my exit to promise you something. You took my straight razor, li’l darlin’. That I…

— Derek Landy

“At the corner store they invaded a hot dog stand and drank pina colada to sober up. It did no good.”

— Thomas Pynchon