Rob Thomas

Dad always said this town could wreck a person, it's what happens when you're playing a rigged game. I convinced myself winning meant getting out.
But in what world do you get to leave the ring and declare victory? This is where I belong, in the fight. It's who I am.
I've rolled around in the mud for so long, wash me clean and I don't recognize myself. So how about I just accept the mud and the tendency I have to find myself rolling in it. My name is Veronica and I'm an addict. Hello Veronica.

Anyone who'd spent a childhood waiting for the other foot — or the other fist — to fall knew how to sense danger.

There weren't many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

Their mutual misanthropy had sealed the deal.

In Vegas, the veneer of glamor was bright but thin. You didn't have to look that hard to see the darker realities that lurked beneath the surface.

His image shifted jerkily once, twice. She caught the sound of his voice deconstructed into halting and meaningless syllables. And then the window went dark.

Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end of World War Two in history, and I can't wait to find out who wins.

When the officer turned to face her, Veronica blinked.

I also drink Scotch. But I'm not picky. I'll take the victory Scotch, or the Scotch of defeat. Or the rotgut swill.

Salinger, Plath, Toole, the literature of choice for the brooding outcast.

You couldn't think of a single thing to do for her? Not with all your supposed ingenuity, your willingness to see the rules as profoundly optional?

Huh. Veronica Mars, speechless. I'll have to write this one in my feelings journal.

It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.

It’s hard to look the people you love in the face when they’ve seen you fuck up everything you touch. Sometimes, it’s easier to rebuild your life if you’re with someone who’s been as low as you’ve been.

This is why you shouldn’t hire your friends. It’s all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed.