Newton Pizzella

“But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“I said: ‘All right, talk, but do you mind putting the gun away? My wife doesn't care, but I'm pregnant.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

“the tigers have found me
and I do not care.”
― Charles Bukowski

“There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappaccini's Daughter