Being needed is just the flip side of being royally screwed. Join the club honey-guess what, there are a few more of us out here who’ve had our brains beaten our with our own dreams. And your life is ruined because you tried to do the Right Thing.“Don’t want my feathers ruffled, it that’s what you mean.” The price of chemical ecstasy was a dear one, paid in flesh and spirit.“Earthquake!” She pulled herself from the bed, stumbled from her building into the street, and watched the lurching structures and snapping powerlines, the buckling sidewalks and exploding water mains, as a seismic debt long outstanding came due. Maxine was torn from her slumber by the moans of the dying and the awful sound of her ramshackle apartment shifting on its foundations. It stretched from slumber, shedding its skin, the screams of its wrath heard in the shriek of tortured steel, of splintering wood and concrete. It was on one of those terrible, fever-clouded days when the serpent beneath southern California awoke.Quotes Street Lethal (1983) All page numbers from the mass market paperback first edition published by Ace Science Fiction Books (second printing, February 1984) ISBN 8-2 Steven Barnes (born March 1, 1952) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer.įor the Dream Park novels, co-written with Larry Niven, see Niven's Wikiquote page.
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