Paul

“There is no place more hollow, more soulless, than a school at night. The building had been created for life, for constant motion, for students rushing back and forth, some confident, most scared, all trying to figure out their place in the world. Take that away and you might as well have a body drained of all its blood.”
― Harlan Coben, Shelter

“Grief. Death was not an intellectual conceit. It was an existential black hole, an animal riddle, both problem and solution, and the grief it inspired could not be fixed or bypassed like a faulty relay, but only endured.”
― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

“Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts

“War is never a meritocracy for the casualties.”
― Harlan Coben, Fool Me Once