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“Since when has a man's title prevented his brutality instead of further emboldening it?”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

“Maya, novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story. Master the short story and you’ll have mastered the world, he thinks just before he drifts off to sleep. I should write this down, he thinks. He reaches for a pen, but there isn’t one anywhere near the toilet bowl he is resting against.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“To speak her name is to bring the stars from the skies and topple the mountains into the sea.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The War of Two Queens

“A.J. thinks how similar everything in the crime genre looks. Why is any one book different from any other book? A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointment sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry