Autumn Delacruz

“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“He reminded me of someone who put your fingers in the door and smiled and talked to you while he smashed them.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“He was sure people detested accountants; they were boring. In fact, he had put down his profession as an airline pilot on the form he had filled in for a dating agency. As an airline pilot you could be away just the right amount of time, when you needed a break from your love life, without facing awkward questions from her when you got back.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“George’s utterance of the nest and the trap belonged to a bigger mystery she did not yet understand. One day I will, she promised herself. She would stake her life that those last words from her son would be solved by her. They were steppingstones into… whatever the wind and the stars and the valiant trees held for her.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds