Darla Stokes

“By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry...”
― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“Sleep is God. Go worship.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“Rex didn’t even hear his human shouting. Every fibre of his being had been trained upon the road ahead because he knew there was a squirrel here somewhere. Then it popped out of the undergrowth to snag a nut and instinct took over. He had to get it, he had to stop it taunting him with its skippety little hops. Squirrels had to die. He didn’t know why, but his legs were moving before his brain told them to.”
― Steve Higgs, Albert Smith's Culinary Capers: The first 10 Recipes