Shirley

“attrit”
― Lee Jackson, Into the Cauldron

“oleaginous”
― Caroline Graham, The Killings at Badger's Drift

“Funny how life was like that. You spent years dreaming of escaping a place, and no matter how far and fast you ran, you could never get completely away. It was part of you.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“You're right, Tokarev, when you said these lads are worth their weight in gold. This is where the steel is tempered.”
― Nikolai Ostrovsky, How the Steel Was Tempered: Part Two