Pa Matts

“Only someone watching him closely like Celena would have noticed his intense preoccupation, and that something in a split second had happened to him.  She wondered where he had gone when he should have been listening to the sermon, where his soul had gone went it had left his body.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

“I realized that I was on a sticky wicket that just received another bout of acid rain.”
― Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

“The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does not understand at first but that become intimately familiar beneath his ink-stained fingers, formed again and again in increasingly steady lines.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“JesusMaryJoseph! Help!”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz