Elliot

“In 2004, a funeral director from Staten Island got caught selling bodies to the U.S. Army for $30,000; the army was dressing the bodies in armored footwear and dangling them over land mines to test how well the footwear worked.)”
― Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

“Regardless, Watts was outraged, and demanded that Freeman stop doing experimental brain surgery in their office.”
― Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

“He was a wooden puppet. Some kind of marionette, Marra thought, the kind that traveling performers used to entertain very young children. He had the carved hands and the clacking jaw, the articulated arms and legs. But the only string on him was a black cord that looped Miss Margaret’s throat, and the puppet held it in one hand. He moved as they watched. It was a slow, considered movement, like a tortoise turning its head in the sun, and it set Marra’s nerves crawling. “Oh, interesting,” said Agnes in a tone of professional curiosity. “That’s a curse-child, isn’t it?” The puppet scowled. Bits of wood dragged down across his face. He yanked tightly on the string. The woman nodded, her eyes large and alarmed and clearly begging her visitors not to say more.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“I’m not kidnapping children,” said Fenris. “I realize we’re working for a higher cause here, but I have to draw the line.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone