Mike Briggs

“Rook Thomas, you look different somehow."
"Well, I recently got the shit kicked out of me," she said.
"Ah, that would be it then.”
― Daniel O'Malley, The Rook

“It was astoundingly difficult to woo a lady who thought she was either trying to purchase a chicken or a few tomatoes from her, or ask her for directions.”
― Colette Moody, The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin

“I wish to God I might induce her to mind me!' he ejaculated.”
― Georgette Heyer, Bath Tangle

“I've always believed," she replied, "that if God is going to be strict about anything, that He will be strict about the rules concerning hate, not love. And if two people love each other, that has to be better than two people hating each other. Beyond that, it's for God to sort out. I'm too frail to be such a judge.”
― J.M. Redmann, Deaths of Jocasta