Rick Whitlingum

“Dad hit me. It was wrong. Dad was wrong. And if even dad can be wrong then anybody can do bad things. Anybody at all. The only way to stop people from being bad is to make rules. Laws.
"Somewhere in a long and lonely night the boy's course is set. He will study the rules. He will study the laws.”
― Frank Miller, Daredevil: The Man Without Fear

“It was, she believed, a simple and unassailable fact of life that if a woman went to epic lengths to throw herself on the mercy of a man, the man would not, could not, refuse.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer

“The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty, and lonely. She stood in the doorway, like a cat trying to make up its mind.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“I want to live in the calmness of the morning light.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life