Cassondra Bailer

“She stood panting as adrenalin fired up her muscles. Flipping open the safety catches on both of her laser pistols, she set them for maximum delivery. Anything or anyone on the receiving end of these weapons would never survive, even as atoms.”
― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

“He glanced at the sheep photograph and nodded to himself. In his present state it did not seem strange to him that the police were apprehending sheep.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

“All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that. It's not on the curriculum.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina

“He manifested a resolution which amounted to sternness.”
― Thomas Keneally, American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles