Chi Minton

“Even whispers were not tolerated in the Pietà when someone else was speaking.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

“If we are to find the only possible solution, it won’t come from fixing one thing at a time, it will come from seeing the whole - and realizing that we are part of it, not above it, not beside it, but within it, woven through it.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“An overhead light blinked and extinguished.
Armitage drew the pistol with his right hand. He swung and aimed, checking there were no innocent people obstructing the way. None. Fired a single shot. It sailed over a plant and table setting. The round hit an inch from the watcher's heart. On impact the brown-haired assailant tipped. Jake ducked. A table toppled. The watcher groaned as the force of the momentum pushed him toward the floor-to-ceiling glass wall.
A second table collapsed, plates thrown asunder. Jake stepped forward, arm stretched and gun straight. A waitress hugged herself, crying. Two more male patrons hit the floor and crawled between chairs.”
― Simon W. Clark, The Russian Ink

“She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn’t for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game