pae (marginhermit)

“We stood numb and silent on the dock as the earth ceased to turn. A terrible stillness held our six warm breathing bodies and Richard—unmoving, inanimate thing—in the same unbreakable thrall. Then there was a sound, a soft groan; Richard stretched one hand feebly toward us, and the whole world lurched. Wren stifled a scream and James grabbed my arm. “Oh, God.” He choked on the word. “He’s still alive.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Yes,” says Dido, her gaze resolutely on her computer screen. “OK. And by the way”—she looks up suddenly—“I’ve read every single Agatha Christie novel ever published. Twice. So I might even be quite useful.”
― Lisa Jewell, The Family Upstairs

“He drowned himself on the last day of December, and though the local authorities dragged the freezing water for days and miles, his body was never found.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Whatever we did—or, more crucially, did not do—it seemed that so long as we did it together, our individual sins might be abated. There is no comfort like complicity.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains