Myrna

“Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power’ Romeo and Juliet, II, iii”
― Val McDermid, Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime

“Sometimes, too, other people gave you their light, and could seem to flicker, to be hardly visible at all, if no one took care of them. Because they’d given you too much and had nothing left for themselves.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye

“To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness; let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death.’ Michel de Montaigne, Essais (1580)”
― Val McDermid, Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime