Andy Williams

“She stood at the window and looked across the street. A sort of desperation gripped her. She’d had a baby and would be raising it to adulthood. My god—adulthood. From across the room, Madeline announced it was feeding time. “But you just ate,” Elizabeth reminded her. “WELL I DON’T REMEMBER,” Madeline screamed back, formally initiating the least fun game in the world: Guess What I Want Now.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“She was the sort of person who demanded adverbs: she never walked when she could stride briskly, and Sherry had never known her to whisper when she could instead confidently declare.”
― C.M. Waggoner, The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society

“One day, young Gale overheard a terrible secret about her best friend Angie: Angie’s sister Pauline, who wrote her weekly, had in fact already died of TB. “But her father didn’t want her to know,” Gale recalled, because it might cause the kind of emotional shock that was deemed dangerous to the TB patient. So to encourage the daughter he still had, this father wrote letters that mimicked the handwriting and style of the daughter he’d lost. Having been told that patients could not be exposed to bad news without risking their health, Gale never told Angie that her sister had died. But it didn’t matter. “I saw them wheeling a stretcher with a body on it down to the morgue. I knew right away it was my best friend Angie.” Gale was eight years old.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“Nevertheless, the judge considered himself a Christian. And he did hate other people’s crimes.”
― Margaret Verble, Cherokee America: A Novel