Chrissie

“Men have an alien, physical capacity for innocence: their bodies can bring forth life that they know nothing of. Only in complete insanity or a coma could a woman do such a thing.”
― Rhonda Riley, The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope

“Okay, so what’s your favorite color, your favorite ice cream flavor, and your favorite season? “Blue, coffee, and winter.” “Winter. No one likes winter.” “It gets dark early, I like that.” “Why?” Because that means the day has ended. I like checking days off a calendar—”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“It is that time of evening when the sky shifts from indigo to violet. In sympathy, the sea has darkened to purple—a color that could earn the Homeric epithet “wine-dark.” Lights are just beginning to come on around the shoreline, like beads being strung, one by one, on a curved diadem crowning the amethyst brow of the bay.”
― Carol Goodman, The Night Villa

“Such wholesome smiles amid the hell of destruction; they seemed like some new kind of evil. Yet their faces looked like mine, like the faces of my people.”
― Rhonda Riley, The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope