Ramsha Noshab

“if you can’t acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.”
― Lee Child, Never Go Back

“Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes

“No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.”
― Tammara Webber, Here Without You

“...I guess I can put two and two together."
"Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man