Mariano

“Nothing I like to do pays well.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

“But could she see things clear like you can? Could she see straight through you? See through your hair and skin to your blood and bones? Did she ever give your cheek a lick to see how you tasted and tell what you would become? Did she have a scar on her chest like a door? Did she ever leave you for long periods? Did a squirrel ever come and sit on her shoulder and whisper in her ear?”
― Laird Hunt, In the House in the Dark of the Woods

“Another corner was dedicated to alchemy, another to witchcraft, another to philosophy of the most disturbing sort.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“maple. I wasn’t going to get the old samurai sword out and chase him.”
― John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever