Harley

“Graham switched on the lights and bloodstains shouted at him from the walls, from the mattress and the floor. The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room full of dark stains drying.

Graham sat on the floor until his head was quiet. Still, still, be still.”
― Thomas Harris

“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“It was said that a crow flying over Berlin would have to carry his own provisions.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon