Circa24 > Quotes

“I told you, Cow, Tarquin doesn’t demote. She destroys.”
― Circa24, Silent Consent

“She gazed over her oxygen mask at the small, smiling Christmas tree that sat on the table behind her.  Tonight, the whirling sound of the disk in the drive was a song that was sweeter than any lullaby.”
― Circa24, Thomas Hardy was an Optimist: A Collection of Short Stories From the Plague Years.

“When we entered the apartment, none of us had to ask about the food basket.  From the look on Dad's face, we had received a ham.  We always prayed for a turkey.  It put him in a better mood.”
― Circa24, Thomas Hardy was an Optimist: A Collection of Short Stories From the Plague Years.

“After his first weeks of walking a beat with Aeron, Garry had wanted to slit his wrists. To him, it wouldn’t matter whose wrists got slit, so long as either he or Aeron wasn’t left standing at sunset.”
― Circa24

“team. Learning D-com was akin to learning CPR. No one mentions a victim could throw up in your mouth. In extractions, no one tells you what could go awry. Jake had read about the process long before her first case, but book learning went only so far.”
― Circa24, Silent Consent

“At a gut level, she knew this illness was one more ploy by her mother—one more ploy to keep Karen under her mother's thumb”
― Circa24

“Blood dripped from his blackfly bites. The bottle flies swarmed the wounds on his head and back, but with his arms secured to the cart, he had no way to ward them off.”
― Circa24, Silent Consent

“I stopped and stared at the washing machine, and I felt revulsion at knowing that his things had been in there ahead of mine.”
― Circa24, Thomas Hardy Was an Optimist: A Collection of Short Stories From the Plague Years

“At a gut level, she knew this illness was one more ploy by her mother—one more ploy to keep Karen under her mother's thumb.”
― Circa24, Thomas Hardy was an Optimist: A Collection of Short Stories From the Plague Years.

“Learning D-com was akin to learning CPR. No one mentions a victim could throw up in your mouth. In extractions, no one tells you what could go awry. Jake had read about the process long before her first case, but book learning went only so far.”
― Circa24

“When you reach our age, everyone wants to keep you alive with granola.  Consider this breakfast an act of liberation.  I got greasy egg sandwiches, bacon, and hash browns.”
― Circa24, Thomas Hardy was an Optimist: A Collection of Short Stories From the Plague Years.

“WHAT HAPPENED ON THE 12TH DAY OF CHRISTMAS”
― Circa24, Thomas Hardy Was an Optimist: A Collection of Short Stories From the Plague Years