Billye Shackelford

“our inner selves can’t help but come along”
― Charles Frazier, Thirteen Moons

“What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Time could not wreck the perfect symmetry of those walls, nor the site itself, a jewel in the hollow of a hand.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had faded tattoos that stained most of the visible skin on his hands, arms and neck a dull blue, sharp eyes and a thick beard that made his mouth look like an axe wound on a bear.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room