Julie

“Her notebook, on the table, contained neither rhymes nor reason but held, between the worn pages, the lump in the throat.”
― Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind

“Western journalists are also taught to report various interpretations of the facts. The adage that there are two sides to a story makes sense when those who represent each side accept the factuality of the world and interpret the same set of facts. Putin’s strategy of implausible deniability exploited this convention while destroying its basis. He positioned himself as a side of the story while mocking factuality. “I am lying to you openly and we both know it” is not a side of the story. It is a trap.”
― Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

“At the hospital. You’ve told me you need people with a motive to have killed Markham, but you don’t know of anyone else except your client, so all right, let’s assume for the moment that it’s not him, although that continues to make me uncomfortable as hell, except still, what you need, even beyond motive, is presence, by which I mean that whoever it was had to be there and that brings us back around full circle.” “I’ll give you a dollar if you can diagram that last sentence for me.”
― John Lescroart, The Oath

“Kind of strange to sit there feeding someone soup in the bed you’d tied them to once upon a time.” It was the most romantic terminal illness/bondage–related thing I had ever heard.”
― Cynthia St. Aubin, Private Lies