Niloofar Masoomi

“Bad things seem to happen when you're around, don't they, Halliday?”
― Bobby Underwood, The Turquoise Shroud

“Some places, such as Paris, have a magic best experienced for brief periods so the romantic feeling doesn’t become tainted by a day to day reality. But Mykonos was different in that respect. Mykonos made you long for the restful, happy day to day reality of life on the Greek island, and it was the brief visits that tortured the soul. Paris was a romantic respite from life, Mykonos was life itself, and living. I understood why Susan had made a home for herself on Mykonos.”
― Bobby Underwood, The Long Gray Goodbye

“This species, the mute swan, became holy to Apollo. In remembrance of the death of the beloved Phaeton the bird is silent all its life until the very moment of its death, when it sings with terrible melancholy its strange and lovely goodbye, its swan song. In honour of Cygnus the young of all swans are called ‘cygnets’.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold

“They were kidding each other, a camaraderie which probably had its beginnings during the fight. It was like that sometimes.”
― Bobby Underwood, The Long Gray Goodbye