Chris Quinn

“Entwives I should really say.’ ‘Entwives?’ said Pippin. ‘Are they like you at all?’ ‘Yes, hm, well no: I do not really know now,’ said Treebeard thoughtfully. ‘But they would like your country, so I just wondered.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Then his gaze is landing on a wrinkled old man staring back at him in the mirror. That familiar stranger. That elderly alien who overtook his body but not his soul.”
― B. Dale, ROOSTER: A Journey of Twelve Inches

“view of the brick wall next door. Once inside, Ronnie took it all in. Not that there was much to take in. A mattress in the middle of the floor, a portable TV, a stack of books—mostly mysteries, I’m embarrassed to say. Some gay porn magazines. Under his breath he said, “Thank God. I’ve arrived just in time.”
― Marshall Thornton, Year of the Rat

“Tamlin’s friends. He’d introduced me to them, and I’d immediately forgotten their names. I hadn’t tried to learn them again.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury