Jonathan Reyes

“It does not come naturally to me to be spontaneous, and admittedly that is the only way in which it can come. As soon as you have planned to do something spontaneously, you actually haven’t. Why wouldn’t you choose to plan something ahead of time rather than ‘see how it goes’? I can tell you how it will go, my friend – not as well as it would have if you had planned it.”
― Jon Richardson, It's Not Me, It's You

“You’re the most trustworthy cop I know,” Wilde said, “and look at how you bent the rules when it came to finding a cop killer.”
― Harlan Coben, The Match

“I’m going, because all I’ve ever gotten and all I have now is somehow due to what we did then, and you pay for what you get in this world.”
― Stephen King, It

“Don’t worry, Mommy,” Danny said. “He’ll be all right. He doesn’t shine. Nothing here can hurt him.” Through her tears she said, “No, I don’t believe that.”
― Stephen King, The Shining