Maia Rayborn

“The craggy lines that made up the character in his face now seemed like scars of defeat, inflicted on him over time.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“Sometimes...you need to give people something that’s for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“I sat there in the lobby with a 7Up and a hog-tied Japanese nymphomaniac locked in my room”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution