Purdy Patrick

“He wondered if the moon was as flat as the earth.”
― Jason Vail, Murder at Broadstowe Manor

“Oh, how naturally teenagers took to self-destruction! To the bottomless sensation of waiting, no new messages from the message machine, all manner of restless ennui. To be young was to long for the future, to grieve it and fear it in equal measures.”
― Olivie Blake, All Manner of Thing Shall Be

“The purpose of a pilgrimage is to allow time and space away from the familiar, so old ideas and beliefs can fall away and new higher perspectives can arise, and the profoundness of the effect varies.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Call of the Camino

“Something wasn’t right. She kept on losing sight of the things in front of her—the kettle, the pump, the range—as if she were walking outside her thoughts. One minute she would be looking at the faucet; the next minute, her memory of Rosa’s whistling was so acute that it shut out the room. Her brain felt densely corridored. There was something going on in there.”
― Kaliane Bradley, A Visit to the Husband Archive