Derrick

“First, her father had a minor stroke, giving Claire a glimpse of his mortality and, by extension, her own. And then she had a vision of herself thirty years in the future: a spinster librarian in an apartment full of cats named after New Wave directors. (Godard, leave Rivette’s chew toy alone—)”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“How do you think it should end?” Young Pasquale considered the question. “Well, instead of going back to America during the war, he could go to Germany and try to kill Hitler.” “Ah,” Alvis Bender said. “Yes. That is exactly what happens, Pasquale. He gets drunk at a party and everyone warns him not to drive, but he makes a giant scene leaving the party and he jumps in his car and accidentally drives over Hitler.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

“The Burgess sisters arrive together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.”
― Anonymous