Joe

“But this dagger – this was her first. Her favorite. The same one that had sliced off the boy’s toe on the beach and sent it rolling through the sand.”
― Leslie Parry, Church of Marvels

“Character is what we are in the dark”
― Lee K. Abbott

“Undergarments flapped wildly on the fire escapes above, soiled with sweat and blood: private stains, flying high over the city like crests on the flags of a ship.”
― Leslie Parry, Church of Marvels

“She had seen it done. Wherever they glittered in the afterlife – flying among the high rafters of heaven, swimming with her mother in an undersea cave – she hoped the tigers had known it, and roared.”
― Leslie Parry, Church of Marvels