Star

“It’s always the quiet ones,” the cliché goes. And like many clichés, there’s some truth to it. But sometimes I wonder: what comes first? Do those “quiet ones” become capable of committing an atrocity because they’re shunned? Or are they shunned because there’s already a sense of what they’re capable of? —Special Agent Peter Arliss, In the Dark with the Devil: One Heroic FBI Agent’s Ground Zero Account of the Arroyo Easter Massacre”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Stop looking over at the fireplace, keep your eyes to me, Jessie,”
― Claudia Carroll, Personally, I Blame my Fairy Godmother

“Our doubts are traitors”
― J. Barton Mitchell, The Severed Tower

“The past is over and done. You have no choice but to live with it. There’s no getting over, no making up for. But there’s a chance to see and create something new. That’s the only chance—your only chance.”
― Sara Gran, The Book of the Most Precious Substance