Aaron Bone

“The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.”
― Sara Paretsky, Bleeding Kansas

“Some friendships develop like flowers in a garden: they are conscientiously planted and nurtured. The ground about them is kept clear of competition. Then, after some weeks and months of incremental growth and laborious pruning, a flower blooms. Such cultivated friendships are agreeable and convenient, if not enduring. Other friendships seem to arise spontaneously, like an egg in a nest or a freckle upon an arm, and these are often mystifying, as both parties are left to wonder how exactly this unexpected affection took hold.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx

“Be still while I get up or I'll make an opening in your head for brains to leak in.”
― Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

“when you got right down to it, humans were still just curious monkeys. They still had to poke everything they found with a stick to see what it did. The”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes