Kurt Peterson

“God does not enter into transactions. One cannot buy a ticket to His grace.”
― Colin Mills, Bitter Passage

“I need more resilience, apparently. “You know what Dad’s like.” So I said, I think resilience as a word is morally bankrupt. It’s what people require of you when they don’t intend to treat you very well.”
― Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed

“All my tables for two are twenty-six inches long by twenty-four inches wide.”
― Keith Mcnally, I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir

“nothing but make her own discomfort worse. Kendra developed a deeper loathing for the woman, especially for her accent. Fabia’s well-modulated tone screamed upper-middle class. Her choice of vocabulary said university graduate. Her ease of manner declared that she’d had a life of privilege. To Kendra, all of this added up to someone who could neither understand what she was dealing with nor begin to negotiate a way through”
― Elizabeth George, What Came Before He Shot Her