Jacelyn Maag

“The stranger thought it might be God himself had forgotten much from our pasts, events far distant, events of the same day. And if a thing is not in God’s mind, then what chance of it remaining in those of mortal men?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

“Cornered, Will punted. He had worked in a cut-throat world long enough to know that he would get the ball back and score.”
― Marilyn Dalla Valle, Westwind Secrets

“They went to loft downtown. V. cool, artsy, mostly artists, kind of boho wild. There was even a naked guy walking around. I asked why. She didn't know but probably he just needed attention disguised as being artsy.”
― Nicole Schubert, Saoirse Berger's Bookish Lens In La La Land

“They jogged along for another half mile, their increasingly laboured breaths punctuated by Bernie's gasps of "great" and "fantastic" whenever Davey showed his style.

"Good workout," Bernie said when they reached the finish line and began to walk. "You should run during the year too, Beckwith. I mean, how the hell do you stay so thin? You don't even play squash."

"I worry a lot," said Bob and kept walking.”
― Erich Segal, Man, Woman, and Child