Sonja

“I’d never”
― Susan Lewis, No Child of Mine

“In the 1970s, after the Damansky Island clashes, a joke began circulating: 'Optimists study English; pessimists study Chinese; and realists learn to use a Kalashnikov.”
― John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

“Sometimes he felt like two people inside the same skin, and he wasn't always entirely sure which of them was real.”
― Susan Lewis, Missing

“Like Trush, Sheriff Gorunov is a born Alpha, a handsome, fire-breathing dragon of a man who smokes with an alarming vigor: cigarette clamped between his canines at the point where filter and tobacco meet, the act of inhaling fully integrated into breath and speech such that there is no discernible pause, only billowing smoke that seems to be a natural by-product of a voice that booms even in the confines of his quiet kitchen.”
― John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival