Lorin (paperbackbish)

“Before the tremendous pain drives its awls into their flesh, she has time to feel this great relief and she looks Il pulito in the eye and hopes he feels it too, wants him to share in this understanding, to understand that the end has come, they are free now, and she knows that he would only need another split second, one split second more for the realization to take hold. But this does not come to pass, for in the eyes of Il pulito she only sees horror and pain and knows that she cannot warm him, she cannot do anything for him even though inside her she feels all the forgiveness that only a human heart, once more unsullied, can hold.”
― Lina Wolff, The Devil's Grip

“He felt a weight roll off him, the exquisite relief of canceled plans that extroverts will never know.”
― Jason Pargin, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

“What you’ve heard is true,” the Fisian chief said. “Dogs are born sweet-tempered. It’s men who make them otherwise.”
― Adam Johnson, The Wayfinder

“When was the last time I had told her I loved her, was proud of her, was grateful to her for showing me what life was like when lived at length and gently?”
― Nell Stevens, Briefly, a Delicious Life