Nicole

“Vanessa,” she says gently, “you didn’t ask for that. You were just trying to go to school.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“He looked out the car window at a sign that said something about Lexington. He couldn’t even remember how he had ended up in Kentucky. Who the fuck goes to Kentucky?”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“What sin therefore did she have to confess? Where was her guilt? And yet carrying the burden of it had been the ruin of her life.”
― Robert Harris, Conclave