Quotes from Alan Russell

skintight layer of clothing that extends from my feet to my neck that's supposed to help improve my hypertrophic scarring. The Iron Maiden describes hypertrophic scarring as skin that exhibits the three Rs of being red,

You can only get so many belly laughs out of nihilism and the price of black eyeliner.

The spring is like some harlot feigning sensuality. It is not until the fall when the year gets down to its real business. I always await the Harvest Moon with enormous anticipation.

Graham had this sinking feeling in his stomach. It felt like Paris all over again. If Lanie died this whole affair would blow up in his face. Hollywood would want a scapegoat, and he fit the bill to a T. His having tried to help wouldn't matter. The star machine would crucify him.

It was the Cheshire Cat who had said to Alice, "I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.

Good afternoon, Detective. This is Dawn from Chief Ehrlich's office. Are you available to talk to the Chief?" "I'm great at multitasking, Dawn. I'm good to talk and piss him off at the same time.

I thanked Dr. Inferno for his help and reached out to shake his hand. I suppose I should have expected to find something palmed in his hand. The object was transferred over to me. The box of matches displayed a picture of Dr. Inferno tossing a fireball; on the back of the box were his telephone number, his Facebook page, and his website. "I perform at just about every kind of occasion." "You do funerals?" "I'm especially good at cremations.

Burke impatiently motioned for Graham to come and help get Lanie into

All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man.

One of the reasons dogs are so loved is that they don't set the bar too high for their humans.

I keep hoping that one day I will arise reborn from my phoenix dreams instead of feeling like day-after barbecue.

Graham got a feel for how paramedics were pumped for information as they delivered their charges to the ER.

"Christmas music," said Nick, "or instruments of torture?"

Jeremiah 1:5: "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born, I set you apart.

I'm glad you live in the moment. That's what I envy about dogs.

that pecking order. The dogs are taught

I'm always more at home with those who are seeking answers than with those who say they have them.

Hemingway said, 'As you get older, it is harder to have heroes.'

He took a long swallow from his bottle. As the warmth trailed down his throat, he sighed, partly out of contentment, partly out of a sense of loss. Wrong took another drink. In an hour or two everything would be all right.

I don't know what an interrobang is." "It's a glyph that combines a question mark and an exclamation point.

I suggested we name one of the children Silence," said Dion, "a greatly underrated virtue.

eyes scanned the heavens, and he found familiar

Know thy enemy," a quote he lifted from Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

The recessional of "Amazing Grace" was familiar to all. John Newton had written the hymn, and I wondered how many people in the church knew that he'd been a slave-ship captain before realizing the error of his ways and becoming an abolitionist.