Mary

“Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
― Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On

“But the one thing Fin had learned from his years in the police was that however much you believed you had them figured out, people invariably surprised you.”
― Peter May, The Blackhouse

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote

“It's (news) like balls in a Bingo hopper. The same events keep coming up over and over. Earthquake. Coup d'etat. Trade war. Hostage taking. My compulsion is to know whick balls are up on any given day.”
― Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead