August Maras

“Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?”
― Paul Cude, Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past

“We are now about to visit the most marvelous places and see the most wonderful things!”
― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

“Everything struggles to live.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Ten years old. Seemed perfectly normal, which under the circumstances, according to the doctor who first interviewed him, meant he probably wasn’t. Years later that would be amended. “He has a talent for violence.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire