Holly Lines

“Just like my great-grandfather,” Jack said. “He died in his sleep. Much more peacefully than the screaming passengers in the car he was driving.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Rise of the Elgen

“One did not act so cheekily nonchalant by accident;”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“You look just fine."
"Ah, 'just fine.' Exactly what a woman loves to hear."
"I'm sorry," he said. "I meant to say that you look like a barbarian who just finished killing her seventeenth rabid tiger to make a necklace out of their incisors.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Cytonic

“It happens in the epilogues. The stories after the stories. Warriors who have fought return home, but find they no longer belong. The battle has changed them, warped them, to the point where they are strangers. They protected the society they love, but in doing so, made themselves into something that could never again belong to it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Starsight