Hazel

“As I get older, Vincent, I have come to prefer a quiet evening at home to a bracing exchange of gunfire in the dark.”
― Douglas Preston, Brimstone

“What was the name of the band?” Carella said. “I don’t think it had a name. It was a pickup band.” “It had a leader, didn’t it?” “Well, he wasn’t exactly a leader. Not the type anybody would want to be taken to, if you follow me.”
― Ed McBain, Give the Boys a Great Big Hand

“gurning,”
― David T. Neal, The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror

“the shock of it is, being a woman in late middle-age feels exactly like being a woman of twenty-three on whom an especially savage trick has been played.”
― Richard Farr, The Truth About Constance Weaver