Matthew Dafoe

“Porter knew little about golf. The idea of hitting a little white ball, then chasing after it for hours on end, did not appeal to him. While he understood it was challenging, he did not consider it a sport. Baseball was a sport. Football was a sport. Anything you could play at eighty years old while toting your oxygen tank and wearing pastel slacks would never be a sport in his book.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

“Everything is stacked against us,” I say. “We’d be a tragedy, Felix. This wouldn’t work.”
― J. Daniels, The Tragedy of Felix and Jake

“Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Drowned Girls

“The death of any dream deserves to be mourned, all its intricate facets touched one last time.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight