Jerome Erbach

“Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.’ That’s Mama, she’s a okay girl.”
― John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

“He straightened and peered down at her, and Winnie, looking back into his face, saw an expression there that made her feel like an unexpected present, wrapped in pretty paper and tied with ribbons[.]”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“The night was when all the failures were remembered longer.”
― Sergio Cobo, A Story of Yesterday

“Take any man you like -- unless he is the one in a hundred thousand with a mind trained to keep things straight, and not always even then -- get him excited, show him something, give him a few hours to think it over, and then ask him about it. It's dollars to doughnuts that you'll have a hard time finding any connection between what he saw and what he says he saw.”
― Dashiell Hammett, Nightmare Town: Stories