“Was it just her, or did lovers look more adoringly at each other in this city? Especially in the springtime.'Die, bastards.'She sighed. It wasn't their fault that they were bastards who should die.”
“No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”
“It's not your job to die for your Pack! It's your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.”
“Fuck off and die, you putrid bastard. (Jericho)”
“I just can’t believe that life would give us to each other,’ he said, ‘and then take it back.’‘I can,’ she said. ‘Life’s a bastard.”
“Ivy League bumblers and drunks who had once pulled the levers of secret gov't in an age of high anxiety...These were the bastards who beat the bastards, unless it was all just dumb luck.”