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Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans. Join the Rat Race "just for a while." Concentrate on your career "just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend "just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs "just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box "just for a while.Christopher Brookmyre
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People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a known quantity. So that'll be a Quarter-Pounder and a Communion Wafer meal-deal to go.Christopher Brookmyre
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Is it colour?’‘ Oh yes.’‘ You don’t let me down. You are my ambassador to pr0n, man.Christopher Brookmyre
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He felt water run down his back from the damp brickwork he was sitting against, and as he worried distantly about corrosion he realised you can always fall a little further. A moment ago he thought he'd bottomed out, but now he was concerned about personal rust. Mother of fuck.Christopher Brookmyre
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Just because you disagreed with the Poll Tax and detested Margaret Thatcher–""Detest is a little inappropriate, " Parlabane said. "Maybe closer to say I spent the entire Eighties wishing I was pissing on her rotting corpse.Christopher Brookmyre
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I suppose there are some advantages to this place, ' he admitted. 'I bet it's fucking raining in Stirling.Christopher Brookmyre
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In a mounting panic the samnite hefted his rifle and delivered a blast straight to Skullhammer's chest, point blank. Once again, torment and debilitation failed to ensue. 'Well, this is awkward, ' said Juno.Christopher Brookmyre