Blue North

“An interview with Quinn is like fighting a yellow snake in a sandpit.’ Desmond”
― Jess Kidd, Himself

“Could she really do it? Could she really go all that way by herself? Yes, she whispered, of course you can do it: you’re thirty-eight years old and you’re not going to the moon, just to Baghdad. The word sounded the way a shiver felt. At the dinner party in London it had been a shiver of excitement, but now it held a frisson of dread.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“Every single one wants to matter. We want our lives, and our stories and the choices we made or didn’t make to matter.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

“Around midnight he'd decided there was but a single course of action: He must remove her ovaries to quell the madness.”
― Peter Geye, The Lighthouse Road