8 quotes
I tell the truth, but I don’t need to divulge everything.
The Repossession Mambo (2009)
True loneliness, I learned that day, isn’t the lack of others. It’s the lack of others quickly.
The Repossession Mambo (2009)
I signed up for the sake of a uniform. I was not the first, and I will not be the last.
The Repossession Mambo (2009)
I like to think that she was right. And I would have responded, but soon our talk show came on, and we stopped worrying about ourselves and each other and started worrying about celebrities.
The Repossession Mambo (2009)
I recognize that the career draws applicants from a certain psychological pool. Garrett came from somewhere near the shallow end.
The Repossession Mambo (2009)
Due to the nature of my profession, I’ve been around death quite a lot, and while I’m not exactly on a first-name basis with the Reaper, we’ve exchanged business cards enough times to give each other a friendly nod when we pass by on the job.
The Repossession Mambo (2009)
Like me, he would turn to the one thing that had always sustained him through difficult times, the one piece of hide-saving equipment with which the military way of life had vested us:
We could kill people and not care all that much.
The Repossession Mambo (2009)
When Melinda filed for divorce, she wrote down only two words as her reason for seeking a dissolution of our two-year marriage: Incontrovertibly self-absorbed. Or is that three words? No matter. The question I have is: Did she mean me or her?
The Repossession Mambo (2009)