Page 138 Quotes

“I may be stumbling through these steps, but at least I'm stumbling forward.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“The jeer went out of the voice. It became tough. Evil.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

“He tried to force her away but she clung. Short of hurting her, he couldn’t break loose.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

“If I could write something as good as right there, right where that belt cinches her pinafore.’ It’s hard to pull my eyes from it. I don’t know why it’s so moving to me, and I could never explain. There’s a madness to beauty when you stumble on it like that.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“Whatever you decide to do, don't go back to Algeria. It consumes its sons and daughters. It shows them no mercy.”
― Robert Goddard, This Is the Night They Come for You

“Algeria is a quicksand. If you are fortunate enough to escape its sucking grip, as you and I have been, you should never set foot there again. I never will.”
― Robert Goddard, This Is the Night They Come for You

“She smiled at us—a smile that was demure and moderate, welcoming and cautious—as she entered the room and sat in the chair that we had set out for her.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Killings at Kingfisher Hill