Star

“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

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

“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

“She’s not frightened. At her age, there’s little left to fear save death, and even death brings the haunting scent of something new and unknown. An enticement of what might come next.”
― Eliza Maxwell, The Caretakers