Clemente Javens

“Are you really a reporter?” asked Brown.
“You already asked me that. Come back to Levita, take the pardon.”
 “I doubt I’ll live long enough to get there,” said Brown bitterly.
“I hope you survive. You are a fighter. And we have the antidote for your habit on
Levita. I suggest you take a vacation. There’s nothing much that’s going to happen here.”
With that she left, leaving Brown more confused than ever.
He was a father, he had a son. And, the Levitians had a cure for his drug-addled body.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“Chona, for her part, saw them not as Negroes but as neighbors”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

“I don't want to brag about how dumb I am, but this job is plain as astronomy to me. I understand everything about it except what you have done and why, and what you're trying to do and how.”
― Dashiell Hammet, The Novels of Dashiell Hammett

“The pen moved slowly upon paper
And tears fell.
He had written a name, yours, in printed letters:
One word on which bemusedly to pore -
No protest, no desire, your naked name,
Nothing more.

- The Foreboding”
― Robert Graves, Poems Selected by Himself