Otis Batimon

“Ben and Freda were happy for Cindy. She had recovered from the horrible abuses she had suffered the previous year. Her last bad dream was over five months behind her. Her schoolwork was excellent, and her home and farm chores were done promptly without any supervision. Her face without a smile was a rare sight.”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

“What about a man in your life?” he asked, surprising me. “It’s time for you to consider that possibility, don’t you think?”
― Steven Decker, INNOCENT AGAIN: A LEGAL THRILLER

“We all reach a point where we would like to draw a line across time and declare everything on the far side null. Shed our past life like a pair of wet and muddy trousers, just roll their heavy clinging fabric down our legs and step away. We also reach a point where we would give the rest of our withering days for the month of July in our seventeenth year. But no thread of Ariadne exists to lead us back there.”
― Charles Frazier, Thirteen Moons

“(there is no pepper on the table; evidently pepper perks the libido),”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God