Kelly

“But I promised to be reliable, not competent”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

“Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it's who you'd spill it for.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone

“Perhaps it was not an easy thing, to be so entirely happy. Perhaps it was actually quite a fearful state to live in--the knowledge that one had achieved a complete success.”
― Jo Baker, Longbourn

“This works to spoil films too: the highest-profile actor with the fewest lines is always the villain, and a sudden wide-shot of a character crossing a road means they are about to be hit by a car. A good author must not only wrong-foot the reader within the narrative, they must do it within the form of the novel itself. There are clues baked into the very object.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone