Kimberly

“pastor” during the general’s final pain-racked days, even as Fred, Badeau, Twain, and Shrady consigned him to his proper place, at the back of the room, ministering to Julia.”
― Mark Perry, Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America

“God forgive us, but ours is a monstrous system. Like the patriarchs of old, our men live all in one house with their wives and their concubines; and the mulattos one sees in every family partly resemble the white children. Any lady is ready to tell you who is the father of all the mulatto children in everybody’s household but her own. Those, she seems to think, drop from the clouds.”
― Mark Perry, Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America

“Irene couldn’t help stopping to admire its shimmering gold pattern, which depicted a beautiful tree with birds and stylized animals, surrounded by a climbing plant like a grapevine against a dark-blue background. She could feel von Knecht looking at her. “That’s a semi-antique Motashemi-Keshan,” he said knowledgeably. She had a fleeting vision of her latest investment on the rug front, a rusty red rug with small primitive stick figures in the corners. The salesperson at IKEA had assured her that it was a genuine, hand-tied Gabbeh, for the reasonable price of only two thousand kronor. She loved her rug and thought that it lit up the whole living room from its place beneath the coffee table. Suddenly she had the equally fierce and foolish impulse to defend her rug. With more vehemence”
― Helene Tursten, Detective Inspector Huss