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Sharon Layburn

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“Jeevan was crushed by a sudden certainty that this was it, that this illness Hua was describing was going to be the divide between a before and an after, a line drawn through his life.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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“Once there was a girl named Riley, the story began. Her heart was a secret garden, its stone walls cracked and weathered. And it was hungry. p160”
― Scott Westerfeld, Zeroes

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“What would you attempt to do if you knew you couldn't fail?"
"Calculus, prolly. Why?”
― Darynda Jones, Seventh Grave and No Body

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“As far as I'm concerned, you can't beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally, the satisfaction of having everything explained to you in a way that makes you kick yourself because you hadn't seen it from the start.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders

tags: anthony-horowitz, genre, genre-conventions, magpie-murders, meta, murder-mystery, mystery

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“I try to count the stars, turning fuzzy as mist rolls off the mountain behind me. I would have made a wish but there's...nothing. I think of the future, of anything I could hope or dream or wish for, and all I see is black emptiness. Stretching out forever. p.266”
― CJ Lyons

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