Clair Guile

“What do the only children do?”
― Ann Patchett, Commonwealth

“Doug sees beneath all of her Hope-ness. Her sees her all the way to her white-hot rage, and her fear. What Doug doesn’t see, is that most of the time, it’s much to bear, and that really, when everything is stripped away, she is just as scared as what life dishes up as the next person, that inside she is that Swarovski hummingbird displayed so innocently on her credenza, all light-reflecting surfaces and fragile as glass.”
― Joan Gelfand, Extreme

“The man in black hustled down to the wreckage, used a rock to smash the window glass, then pulled out his Raging Bull Casull .454. Before he fired a round, the woman pulled down her mask and opened her eyes. With chilling calm, she said deliberately, “God will damn your soul. Think before you make a decision that will stand for eternity.” ”
― John M Vermillion, Packfire

“For this is the great secret, which was known to all educated men in our day: that by what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon