Keith Spiteri

“She watched the clock like the owner of a candy store watches the fat kids.”
― Michael Connelly, Nine Dragons

“You see, the past is what you make of it. You can use it to hurt yourself or others or you can use it to make yourself strong.”
― Michael Connelly, The Harry Bosch Novels, Volume 2: The Last Coyote / Trunk Music / Angels Flight

“inner-worlds culture didn’t measure it that way. For them, being better meant being better than the person next to you, not both of you sharing the same increase.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Falls