J Torres

“Don’t look too far ahead. That was what Olaf used to say. Before she killed him”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Devils

“When I set the hook on a nice fish, Gartside asked, “How far out was he?” “Just outside the mud line,” I told him. “That’s where I thought they’d be. Don’t be a barnacle. Keep covering ground after you land him.”
― David DiBenedetto, On the Run: An Angler's Journey Down the Striper Coast — A Fall Spent Chasing the Striped Bass Migration

“It’s funny. At first, I think you start getting high to dull your emotions, to escape from them. But after a while you realize that the drugs are what are making your life untenable, they are actually what are heightening every emotion you have. It’s making your heartbreak harder, your good times higher. So coming down really does start to feel like rediscovering sanity. And when you rediscover your sanity, it’s only a matter of time before you start to get an inkling of why you wanted to escape it in the first place.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“She looked even less like royalty than usual. Her wet hair had come loose and stuck to her pale cheek”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Devils