Chris N

“Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver," she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles.”
― Alan Bradley, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

“from Pearls and Poison…
“In two minutes the cops are going to come barreling though that door,” I whispered to Auntie KiKi hoping to get her mind off the body in the back room. “Any suggestions how we tell these workers out here their candidate just croaked?”
“Yell The jackass bit the big one, hip-hip hooray Gloria wins, then run like the dickens before someone recognizes us.”
― Duffy Brown, Pearls and Poison

“Janvier watched Ashwini stride away, her hips moving provocatively beneath the snug fit of her jeans. “Take care of her,” he said quietly to his friend. “She is my eternity, Louis.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Shadows