Lamonica Blush

“Gloriously, I’ve also learned that people you meet in real life are very unrealistic. The marvelous problem for fiction is to capture this preposterous, implausible and blazingly eccentric life, and to put it in a cell overnight, to sober it up until it reads believably on the page. That’s what a novelist is: I’m not a creating god, I’m reality’s jailor.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven

“In effect, the Kutubu oil field functions as by far the largest and most rigorously controlled national park in Papua New Guinea.”
― Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

“She must feel like Lucifer’s frigid breath is running down the back of her delicate neck.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“where there's a Clark, there's a Lewis”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus