Lexivore

“This building is reserved for low-income individuals earning seventy grand a year or less.” Eve was stunned. “That’s poverty wage in Santa Monica?” “And all of Los Angeles County,” Gus said. Duncan looked at Eve. “That’s insane. Give me one good reason why anybody lives in Southern California?” “In-N-Out Burger.”
― Lee Goldberg, Gated Prey

“cursing the physical therapist they’d sent him. Hans. Rooker thought he was just as evil as that other Hans. Hans Gruber. The villain in the greatest Christmas classic ever made—Die Hard.”
― Pete Zacharias, The Man Burned by Winter

“He was no genius, but he showed up and did the work, and most times that was all it took to succeed at anything in life.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Living with the Dead

“She needed to tell him that she’d looked at his latest piece of writing too, that she didn’t like it, all the to-ing and fro-ing, all that jumping around in the timeline. Like the last one, the awful crime thing. Just start at the beginning, for God’s sake.”
― Paula Hawkins, A Slow Fire Burning