Shelly

“He took such a deviation from building codes that he held his breath when the building inspector, a man more wire than flesh, his limbs like spindles fixed to a rake of a body, peered over the top of his spectacles and shook his head several times.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“And that’s assuming we’re all good. Giving a man a badge and gun doesn’t mean you’ve given him the moral code to use either correctly.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“That’s okay cuz I’m talking to your sorry ass. If you don’t want people in your business, keep your dick in your pants,” I said with a shrug. “It’s simple.”
― Elle Kayson, Demon's Dream

“She too wanted to gaze into the eyes of a loving man and glow. To love someone passionately, faithfully, with everything that she was, and be loved the same way in return. But deep down she knew her fiancé was not that man. He did accept her disability, though, and her life would be more than comfortable, even lavish, living in a fancy house in London, dining in the finest restaurants, shopping in the high-end boutiques, enjoying the opera and ballet, and all the other privileges financial security bestowed. Yet somehow it still felt as if she had an open wound festering inside. A woman absent of true love, paying a heavy price for settling.”
― Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna