Julia Stephanie

“He sometimes thought of a crime scene as a woman’s body. Every man naturally took interest in a few specific locations and largely ignored the rest. It was those other places—the skin at the base of the neck, the dimple on the lower back, the pad of her palm—where he could make a difference. A crime scene was no different. It was a woman who deserved to be explored completely. This was not an analogy Roger had ever shared with his wife.”
― Danielle Girard, Everything to Lose

“I feel like a shipwreck. A house fire nothing but bodies can be pulled from. So full of gaping boards and fallen walls that some days, there doesn't even seem a foundation worth rebuilding upon.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

“I taste the past in his kiss. I taste apologies and regrets, questions without answers, the fine-grooved sense of time making me relax and tense up at the same time. Meaning doesn't matter in this brief flash of touch. What this kiss means isn't important. That it's happening at all is.”
― Julia Kent, Perky

“The CDC and three other research groups submitted a paper for publication in the journal Science detailing how they had reconstructed the 1918 H1N1 influenza virus, using virus genes that had been identified in lung samples of patients who died during the 1918 pandemic.”
― Michael T. Osterholm, Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs