Tag: Chrestomathy

“‘Divorce?’ He had no right to be amazed at the prospect of divorce appearing suddenly like this, but it is often the case that delusional people experience feelings that they have no right to experience”

Ecochondriacs, p. 42

“How you learned how to type with those bratwurst fingers of yours beats me”

Ecochondriacs, p. 36

“That mission statement was, ’To fight the pagan death cult until we hang their last dog’”

Ecochondriacs, p. 34

“He defined ecological sanity as a world that didn’t have any environmentalists in it anymore, except three at the South Pole perhaps, studying the weather. Not the climate, but the weather”

Ecochondriacs, p. 33

“The prose read like it had been written by the archangel Gabriel—when the muse was on him, when he was writing hot, and was going real good”

Ecochondriacs, p. 31

“The man sitting in front of him was a total unit, like two or three Navy SEALS packed into one. Moreover, he looked like a logger, the kind that could walk out of the woods with a tree under each arm”

Ecochondriacs, p. 31

“He was a hard case, with a straight-line edge, but not a sociopath. That said, if he ever got bitten by a diamondback, the snake would be the one that died”

Ecochondriacs, p. 30

“He, like they, talked a serious game, for the future of the planet was at stake, and he, like they, was more or less a lummox, an oaf, and a simpleton”

Ecochondriacs, pp. 26-27

“But their problem was that no matter how many Pottery Barn windows they smashed, their fathers were still important figures in their respective chambers of commerce. The thing seem insoluble”

Ecochondriacs, p. 26

“She had been staring at some briefs in her brief case, and then went into the laundry room and stared at some briefs in the laundry basket, and decided that work was work wherever you are, but that she preferred being with people she loved instead of being with people she didn’t”

Ecochondriacs, p. 23