Michele Breaux

“That got some appreciative laughter, though he wasn’t joking, and the bird didn’t laugh. It didn’t answer him either. Quentin couldn’t read its face; like all birds, it had only one expression.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

“around at the sound of the flat Cockney vowels. The sight of the girl detective bearing down on him was about as welcome as a Russian son-in-law.”
― Anya Lipska, Where the Devil Can't Go

“Hamid Karzai was once the sartorially blessed favorite of the West, but no longer. He had proved to be whiny and conflicted, a combination of Woody Allen, Chicken Little, and Jimmy Carter.”
― Kim Barker, The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

“If anyone lacked the gene for holding a grudge, it was Frost, whose legendary congeniality only served to make Jane look bad.”
― Tess Gerritsen, I Know A Secret