Rowan

“Do you think we carry them with us?’’ I asked. ‘’All the stories of the past?”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, All the Bad Apples

“You won’t see us in the photographs. The history books. But the landscape remembers.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, All the Bad Apples

“We are not going to die."

Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?"

"No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“Emotions had welled close to the surface, and she thought her heart had never felt so full as it did standing next to the defiled grave of a whore while lunatics sang the national anthem.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet