Fugitives & Refugees Quotes

"It's the thin blue line versus the fat red line".

"LSD was lysergic acid diethylamide. A simple alkaloid. Just another chemical. It was science."

"Now my role is to give the lead singer... a come-hither look and make love to her in the meat locker."

"Up the back of the dress, you can see thick black tire treadmarks that suggest a very ominous end to some prom night."

"Our every exhale is a lie."

"Fifteen years after we spent our night in a bed soaked with cold animal blood, Rhonda tells me nothing is as nasty as sharing a tour bus bathroom with Buddhist monks: They're not allowed to touch their penises and refuse to piss sitting down."

"You can't tell anyone about a naked man without getting to his penis and balls. They're the only part of him not fighting."

"The marine architect, Mark, he thinks I love old ships enough to sleep with him. This is capital-NOT going to happen, but Mark leads me through the security gates and into the huge floating dry dock."

Flopped there on the honeymoon bed, Mark says if I want anything I should just, you know, take it. Instead of Mark, I take a shower curtain and a wool blanket, both of them decorated with the Monterey's crest: seven stars circling the letter M. I slept with that blanket for years."