Christopher Cyr

“there were things living on the bottom of ponds that were smarter than most bail jumpers.”
― John Connolly, Every Dead Thing

“In Hell,” she said, “someone’s in charge.”
― Dennis Lehane, Since We Fell

“Your knowledge and mine won’t go away. But you’ve got to look at it for what it is. You can’t bury something awful inside yourself, then pretend it’s not there while you fight another war that makes you break all your own rules.”
― James Lee Burke, The Neon Rain

“She remembered a feeling she could barely articulate, that her mother, never happy, grew even more bitter with success. Years later, she’d suspect the reason was because the fame and the money robbed her mother of excuses for her unhappiness. Her mother, brilliant at analyzing the problems of strangers, never had a clue how to diagnose herself. So she spent her life in search of solutions to problems that were born, raised, lived, and died within the boundaries of her own marrow.”
― Dennis Lehane, Since We Fell