Efrain Araki

“The pudgy one moved his bishop and immediately turned the beetle around and started it trudging back the other way. “If the beetle just cuts across the corner, is time up then?” Starling asked. “Of course time’s up then,” the pudgy one said loudly, without looking up. “Of course it’s up then. How do you play? Do you make him cross the whole board? Who do you play against, a sloth?”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“God had been orchestrating the events of my life behind the scenes for years, and I had no clue.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

“People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.”
― Dave Eggers (Author), How We Are Hungry

“What's this?'
'A silk scarf, milady!' exclamed Valannie. 'To cover your head.'
'I have hair for that,' replied Clariel.”
― Garth Nix, Clariel