Julia Lorow

“So the sock,” she said. “If you swing a baseball bat at someone, they sometimes try to take it from you. So if you have a sock on there, the sock slides off when they grab the bat, it puts them off balance, and you get a second swing to break their skull.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Fall Risk

“Alicia Berenson was thirty-three years old when she killed her husband.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“there’s an old Scottish saying my ma was fond of. What’s for you won’t go by you.”
― Abraham Verghese, Abscond

“If you’re trying to accomplish something boldly good in the world, you’re probably a pain in a lot of asses.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Last Caretaker