Yu Peery

“He sat in disbelief as the Mission Possible continued its rocking motion farther out to nowhere. He could hear the metronomic slap, slap, slap of water against the boat’s hull. He checked his watch, turned his Yankees cap around, and started the engines. Taking one last look around, he turned the bow of the Bertram back toward shore. Ready or not, it was time for Jake Reid to go home.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

“You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“backasswards!”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“We always hurt the ones we love, darling.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed