MEJ BURRELL

“Becky was increasingly of the opinion that people were inherently bad; it was just a matter of how well they controlled their badness.”
― Rachel Abbott, Kill Me Again

“I’d begun to feel as if there was a creeping deadness inside me, encroaching on the calm and replacing it with a black void, a vacuum where emotion should be. And the deadness was growing and penetrating every corner of my soul, reaching out its dark tentacles to smother all natural reactions.”
― Rachel Abbott, Sleep Tight

“Studies suggest that the part of a boy’s brain that controls judgment does not fully develop until his mid-twenties. And that gap between mind and body – a body that could suddenly do what a man could do and a mind that still thought like a boy – could put his son’s future in jeopardy. Throughout the history of man, testosterone and stupidity had never joined together to produce a good result. Frank wondered if he could protect his son from himself. He”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William

“Congress routinely exempted itself from the laws it imposed on the citizens, much as the ruling parties in Russia and China do. Consequently, the five hundred thirty-five members of Congress could freely and legally trade stocks on inside information whereas the other three hundred million Americans could not. Frank disagreed with the law, but it was still the law.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Case Against William