Sharon Layburn

“I don't want to leave you."
"You're not leaving me", he said. "I'm yours, wherever I go.”
― Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie

“The afflicted are almost upon them. The air is a din of hypersonic bursts, snarls and empty shell casings. But still I hear him. As his people start to fall. As his pistol clicks empty. As he rises with only his knuckles left between him and the sheer brutality of mathematics. As the music swells above the carnage, still I hear him breathe the words. "Tell them I was thinking of them. At the end." They pile onto him. All snarls and teeth and fists. But as he falls, I am holding his hand. Easing him into his long good night. "I will tell them, David." The last words he will ever hear. 'I promise.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“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

“Lead me not into temptation. Follow me instead! I know a shortcut! —T-SHIRT”
― Darynda Jones, Seventh Grave and No Body