Jim Thomsen

“The connective tissue between large Texas cities is brown nothingness. Buildings sprout from the flat ground in the distance when you get close enough to a city, their tallest structures reaching up to the sky like the blocky dark fingers of some buried giant from an alien race, but before you get there, the only thing around you is dirt, a few weathered shrubs, and an endless blue sky that sometimes makes you think it’s close enough to shatter if you throw a big rock at it. It’s like whichever deity was in charge of the terrain just gave up and copied and pasted the same mile over and over again all the way along I-10.”
― Gabino Iglesias, The Devil Takes You Home

“Divorcing her wouldn’t work. He couldn’t handle the girls on his own, and it would be bad for his image, especially right before a big campaign. He’d just have to put up with her and pray she got cancer, which aside from getting rid of her would be great for optics.”
― Stanton McCaffery, Neighborhood of Dead Ends

“He shuffled to the door and didn’t look back. In his memory she would remain there forever, in her scarlet robe, surrounded by the dusty feathers of dead birds.”
― M.E. Proctor, Elymore: The Savage Crown Series Book 1

“This is the part in the movie where Jade’s supposed to rally, she knows. She’s not supposed to mope, she’s supposed to be gearing up, pouring black powder into lightbulbs, hammering nails into the business end of a bat, that kind of stuff.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw