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“As the boy grew, he applied himself to the understanding of science and life, but always the first more readily than the second, for science was the logical aim of his own passionate curiosity, and life was the mystic parabola that eluded his grasp every time he became certain he had solved the equation of its inevitable arc.”
― Jan Eliasberg, Hannah's War

“Be brave. You have everything you need,” I murmured to no one in particular. “Everything indeed.” Excelsior!”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Sinister Revenge

“Even imperfect things can be precious, after all. The choice itself is precious. The smallness and the largeness of an individual life does not change the fundamental honor and value of every manifestation of our personhood.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“I shall write him a murder story in a letter, but I won't put in the ending. I'll write the clues and the suspects and possibly the weapon, but my present to him will be that he can puzzle it out all by himself."

And so, I began to plot.”
― Marthe Jocelyn, The Seaside Corpse