Barbara

“She’d hated this email because it hadn’t answered her question, because the rep had mixed metaphors, because the punctuation was chaotic, and because workhorse was one word.”
― Laura Blackett, The Very Nice Box

“Following after Lori, half-listening to her chatter, Skippy feels happy but strange, like a shadow that's won some competition and been invited for one day to be an actual person and not just a fuzzy shape on the ground.”
― Paul Murray, Skippy Dies

“My current life, I realized, was constructed around an absence; for all its richness I still felt as if the floors might give way, as if its core were only a covering of leaves, and I would slip through, falling endlessly, never to get my footing.”
― Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

“I presided over the last ebbing away of enchantment, pointing out the occasional shiny thing as it flowed into the drain. I wonder if I wasn't just tricking them into feeling more comfortable with the coming meaninglessness. Plumping the coffin pillows.”
― Luke Kennard, Black Bag