Sally Bramley

“boys who had been born on third base and thought they hit a triple (as my mother often quoted),”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing

“And someplace, if there is a place where lists are kept, and credit given, I am sure there is a gold star by his name.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Time is an illusion, a construct made out of human memory. There’s no such thing as the past, the present, or the future. It’s all happening now.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“Leni saw suddenly how hope could break you, how it was a shiny lure for the unwary. What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst? Was it better not to hope at all, to prepare? Wasn’t that what her father’s lesson always was? Prepare for the worst.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone