Steven Scott

“writers are terrified of offending other writers because better than anyone else they know that a sensitive mind armed with a pen is like a child equipped with an Uzi.)”
― Jo Nesbø, The Jealousy Man

“launched into a dramatic description of the terrible twos, the tiresome threes, the filthy fours, and the fearsome fives, barely taking a breath before piling into the angsty adolescents, the pimply pubescents, and especially, especially, oh lord, the troubled teens, noting always that boys were harder than girls, or girls were harder than boys,”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Barolo.”
― Ian Rankin, A Heart Full of Headstones

“Jesus, so much for tact. What’s the PC term for diddyman?’ ‘I have achondroplasia. A genetic disorder.’ Reece felt a familiar flash of anger. ‘Do you want me to spell it for you?’ ‘Fuck no, we’ll be here all night.”
― Mick Herron, Slough House