Phillip Bollinger

“Charles cleared his throat and said a little louder than necessary, ‘But yes, we are all happy for you, Arthur. Gabriel seems like a lovely young man.’ ‘I admit, I still don’t understand the uh – the mechanics,’ Gladys said. ‘But I’m sure it must work – somehow. Seems very popular these days.’ The gruff-looking Gerry shook his head.”
― G.B. Ralph, Over and Out

“Now that I’m here, I can see that it was always going to come to this. For too long, I believed my voice alone wouldn’t be enough. That nobody would want to hear the truth and step in to help. But when I needed it most, three women showed up. First Eva, then Danielle, and finally, Charlie. If we don’t tell our own stories, we’ll never take control of the narrative.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“Overall though, I should have known better, ‘No capes!’ as Edna Mode would say.”
― G.B. Ralph, Slip and Slide

“It was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down. —AGATHA CHRISTIE, THE CLOCKS”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop