Burt

“someone has to round up the country’s idiots and put them somewhere they can’t do any harm and so we invented Parliament.”
― Jodi Taylor, Hard Time

“Does it get easier?” she said when she returned. [Grief is never easy. But it gets softer around the edges, smoothed over like a river rock given time enough and water. It’s still a rock and it’s heavy and dangerous and capable of hurting you.”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“His wide mouth was twisted into a pleasant sneer, and the scar of the inkvine whip slashed across his jawline seemed to move with a life of its own.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“You can’t patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.”
― Michael Connelly, The Black Echo