Dwight Agan

“In the early years of the war, I fell in love, I learned to ride a bike, and I discovered firsthand just how much blood could fit on the inside of a grown man. The world kept turning, and people kept dying, and for the next few years I sat under the leafy green and wrote about the dead.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing

“That’s what my life was about for a long time,” he added quietly. “I was searching out evil. That was my job. And I was good at it but in the long run it was better than me. It got the best of me. I think—no, I know—that’s what took my heart.”
― Michael Connelly, Blood Work

“Hadn’t Gandhi-ji said, An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind?”
― Alka Joshi, The Henna Artist

“An accident I could live with. All that time I was waiting, knowing that somebody had to die for me to live, I was getting myself ready to accept it as an accident. With an accident it’s like it was fated or something. But a murder… that comes with evil intent attached. It’s not happenstance. It means that I’m the benefactor of an act of evil, Doctor, and that’s why it’s different now.”
― Michael Connelly, Blood Work