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Stefan Petrucha Quotes

Really, boy, unless you're ready to deal with the monster, you shouldn't go looking under the bed.

Really, boy, unless you're ready to deal with the monster, you shouldn't go looking under the bed.

Stefan Petrucha
Boys, Bed, Monsters
Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin

It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what you can see in others.

Stefan Petrucha
Boys, Toys, Teach
Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin

Because if I smashed anything, Team Jaiden would just get me into a behavior modification program, or maybe some doctor would put be on drugs for my ADD or bipolarism or depression or whatever they're calling being alive and feeling royally screwed these days.

Stefan Petrucha
Team, Doctors, Feelings

Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and then… justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads.

Stefan Petrucha
Real, Hero, Ocean
Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin

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