Alonso Mirzadeh

“But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“I may have spent long enough in your orbit to have absorbed your ferocious conviction that a happy family cannot be a mere myth or that even if it is, better to die trying for the fine if unattainable than sulking in passive, cynical resignation that hell is other people you're related to.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Trust is a strange bedfellow.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

“Was it possible that only love could bend the bow of bronze?”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow