Steve

“Hey, man! Hey, hold up a minute!"
Like many New Yorkers, he had a crackhead alert system and turned, steeling himself.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“Time was a wave, almost cruel in its relentlessness as it whisked her life downstream, a life she had to constantly strain to keep from breaking apart.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“Just as Snow was concocting his theory of cholera as a waterborne agent that had
to be ingested to do harm, Chadwick was building an elaborate scheme that would
deliver the cholera directly to the mouths of Londoners. (A modern bio-terrorist
couldn't have come up with a more ingenious and far-reaching scheme).”
― Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

“I thought I recognized him but most cops blended into one brutal fist for me after a while.”
― Walter Mosley, White Butterfly