Trick R Treat Quotes

But he could not call the doctors at the leprosarium. They would return him to Louisiana. They would treat him and train him and counsel him. They would put him back into life as if his illness were all that mattered, as if wisdom were only skin deep, as if grief and remorse and horror were nothing but illusions, tricks done with mirrors, irrelevant to chrome and porcelain and clean, white, stiff hospital sheets and fluorescent lights.

Thank you, V, he thought as he jumped out himself. Balz stayed tight on her heels as she hit a little walkway with a long stride, and about halfway to her front door, he realized how ridiculous he looked: He was still nakie with a sheet wrapped around his hey-nannies, and he had a gun down at one thigh and a duffle bag full of click-click-bang-bang hanging off his other shoulder. Too bad this wasn’t Halloween for the humans. He could have called himself a flasher-assassin and maybe gotten away with it. Plus, hey, guy shows up on your trick-or-treat doorstep with a forty caliber in his palm, you were likely to dump your bowl of candy wherever he told you to put the stuff. So he’d clean up and Rhage would be psyched.

Micky had another high finance trick up his sleeve: That year, P&R sold coal properties to Reading Anthracite, its wholly owned subsidiary, taking equity and debt in return. Instead of bringing up operating profit, P&R accounted for the proceeds as debt repayment from Reading Anthracite and paid it out as a mostly tax-free distribution. This allowed the operating profits at the subsidiary to be upstreamed to the parent not as a dividend, but rather as repayment of intercompany debt, which in turn allowed the distribution by the parent to shareholders to be treated as a mostly tax-free distribution.166