Jim Crocker

“Her thoughts speed up and become less rational; her mind makes fantastic leaps. It's not that things don't make sense to her when she's like this — sometimes they make 'more' sense. They make sense the way dreams do. It's only when the dream is over that you see how odd it all was, how it actually didn't make sense at all.”
― Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door

“Saul was hunched over his drink like it was a small fire.”
― James Swain, Sucker Bet

“there are men in politics whose greatest aim is to look exalted in their own eyes.”
― Phyllis T. Smith, I Am Livia

“She reached below the seat, where she’d stashed the little revolver. “You’ll feel better having it,” Charlie had said. Suddenly she did.”
― Gwen Florio, Dakota