– a painting by Attila Richard Luckas
“You made a promise, Todd Hewitt,” he says. “Need I remind you once more? Just save her and I’ll do anything you want, I believe were your exact words.”
I lick my lips nervously. “How do I know yer keeping yer end of the bargain?”
– Attila Richard Lukacs, Peace, Love, Rock & Soul or Slave in the Graveyard (2007)
“You don’t,” he says, his eyes on mine, like he’s peering right past every lie I could tell him. “I want your faith in me, Todd, and faith with proof is no faith at all.”
– Attila Richard Lukacs, The Tatoo d Liar (2008)
… women ain’t got no Noise –
“Because women are not animals,” the Mayor says, reading me. “No matter what anyone claims I believe. They are merely naturally Noiseless.”
– Attila Richard Lukacs, On the Last Day of the Year of the Rabbit (2012)
He lowers his voice. “Which makes them different.”
– Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer, Second Part of The Chaos Walking Trilogy, Walker Books, London, 2013, p. 50
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