Shari

“she would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism, without a strong sense of the possible, would represent a very sad state of affairs.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, A Lesson in Secrets

“You know how, on a bright day, you can close your eyes and see an afterimage of whatever you were just looking at? It was like that.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Nillness, that was where Lula Landry had gone, and where all of them, he and Rochelle included, were headed. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow’s mother…sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“Red Planet—Blue Pencil” in The Heinlein Journal No. 8, for January 2001.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Red Planet