Jim Norris

“Love’s a terrible price to pay for company, ain’t it, Matty?” Caleb said. “I won’t pay it, myself. I’d rather do without the company.”
― Larry McMurtry, Dead Man's Walk

“He had puppy-dog eyes, I thought, but there was something different about his gaze. He was trying to meet mine, but remained just off. Not drugs. Asperger’s, maybe. Some kind of syndrome, high functioning, but enough to keep him forever separate. He was right—a tougher life in high school.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look for Me

“It was the other man Hardy had noticed in the gallery. Reasonably good-looking, somewhat burly even in his tailored suit, Lightner sported a well-trimmed red beard under a head of dark brown hair. It was a striking combination that Hardy thought might come out of a bottle.”
― John Lescroart, The 13th Juror

“Maybe you could only really see that someone was beautiful when they’d grown into themselves.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising