Christopher Cyr

“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

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

“Instead, I felt only a heaviness, like a dark, wet blanket over my consciousness.”
― John Connolly, Every Dead Thing

“It’s all a cesspool, man. Doesn’t matter if you’re on the bottom or the top. You’re still swimming in shit.”
― Michael Connelly, The Black Ice