Janis Mithcell

“Her fingers remembered the slow, careful work in the wood, with a quiet grief, that didn't diminish, but was manageable.”
― A.S. Byatt, The Matisse Stories

“The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they seemed to become with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness and power and beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier for them to see that something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow. When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and year for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle's eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn. Well, they were going to destroy it again, were they - this garden Earth, civilized and knowing, to be torn apart again that Man might hope again in wretched darkness.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Liebowitz

“Before I started killing people, I like to think I was a fairly normal kid.”
― Edward Williams

“Your contact’s codename is Stolichnaya.”
― Paul A. Barra, Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller