She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why i despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them.
James Ellroy
My Dark Places
1996
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LA Times
James Ellroy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Dark_Places_(book)
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