Circa24 Quotes

“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.

“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 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.

“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

“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