Luchrysta

“a voice that signaled he was being kind but not sincere.”
― Maggie Shipstead, Seating Arrangements

“That when things go your way, it never makes you as happy as you’d expected, but when things go against you, it’s a cold-water jolt, an unshakable outrage that dogs you forever.”
― Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different

“Now as then, he sensed the threads of his life scattering and rearranging before this new and overwhelming thing that had landed among them.”
― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni

“It was as if she could hear music, where there was no music.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Shadow Land