Joya Cullar

“But before I could pull back onto the highway, the blue and red flashing lights of a police cruiser lit up behind me. I watched as the officer, wearing a mask, approached.
He motioned for me to put on a mask and open my window. How could I put on a mask? I didn’t have one. I mouthed, no mask.
He pulled one out of his uniform jacket pocket. One of those despicable thin blue paper masks. Now what the hell good was that going to do either of us?”
― Behcet Kaya, Deception: A Jack Ludefance Novel

“تحت السماء الواسعة المرصعة بالنجوم
احفر لي قبرا، ودعني أرقد.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Ben leaned back slightly, studying her with that same
unreadable calm. “I looked into you, you know. Not the
name you gave. The real one.”
Jane sat up slowly, her wine glass balanced loosely in
one hand. The water had gone too still, as if something
just below the surface had pressed pause.”
― D.L. Maddox, Secrets

“I knew I rode a rugged crest of turmoil that might crash on the rocky shore of irrational behavior.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow