Jaye Tranbarger

“It’s lonely,” she replied. “But a good kind of lonely. The kind that makes you stronger. I lived a solitary life here for years. That is how I’ve emerged as I am now. All great faiths are born in the desert.”
― J.S. Latshaw, A Gallery of Mothers

“The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“I use their expectations against them. That will be their weakness. Not mine. Let them all underestimate me. Let them think they have the upper hand over the little girl. Let them relax while the adrenaline leaks out of their systems. Let them believe they're closing their grips on a shrinking violet. And when their guard is down and their pride is rising... let me kick their butts up around their ears.”
― Chuck Dixon, Batgirl: Year One