Beth Johnson

“Blocks of row homes sported empty lots where random houses had been torn down, like missing teeth in a rotting smile.”
― Melinda Leigh, Midnight Obsession

“When violence touched people, the damage didn’t stop once the deed was done. It burrowed into the soul and made itself at home.”
― Melinda Leigh, She Can Scream

“The edge of the world crept into view, at least to the straining wide-open eyes, limned and outlined in gray on gray, infinitely dim, infinitely subtle, hardly there at all, part imagination, and part hope. Then pale gold fingers probed the gray, moving, ethereal, as if deciding. And then spreading, igniting some thin and distant layer one molecule at a time, one lumen, lighting it up slowly, turning it luminous and transparent, the glass of the bowl, not white and cold, but tinted warmer.”
― Lee Child, Make Me

“All day, every day, we make these decisions, and we make them from a place that assumes that the world is reasonably safe. We make risk assessments all day long, and those assessments are based on experience and expectations that don’t necessarily involve murderers or drunk drivers.”
― Lisa Regan, Her Deadly Touch