Kathryn

“For all that "home" was considered a word of warmth and comfort, policemen knew better. Home is where the heart is, and the heart could be a dark and damaged place.”
― Kate Morton, Homecoming

“What causes crime?" Hercule Poirot demanded rhetorically. "It is a question, that. What stimulus is needed? What inbred predisposition does there have to be? Is every one capable of crime- of some crime? And what happens that is what I have asked myself from the beginning, what happens when people who have been protected from real life-from its assaults and ravages--are suddenly deprived of that protection?”
― Agatha Christie, Taken at the Flood

“Sometimes the worst thing that happens to us turns out to be the best thing”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“Hephaestus: "I envy your mortals."
Aphrodite: "As Ares says, they die you know."
Hephaestus: "They do. But the lucky ones live first [...] The luckiest ones spend time with you.”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War