Crystal

“In her experience, it was those first sixty seconds, from the moment she flashed her P.I. license to the end of her pitch, that she was most likely to earn someone's cooperation. Older people were the easiest, if only because they were so often bored out of their minds that they welcomed any distraction. Men were curt, but they usually found the time, as long as she did the little-me, big-eye, big-chest thing. Women were more skeptical, because women spent their lives listening to bullshit.”
― Laura Lippman, The Sugar House

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
― Francis Bacon

“Perhaps tomorrow had never been meant for them at all. Perhaps tomorrow belonged to God.”
― Hannah Linder, When Tomorrow Came

“Stop looking to the sky for answers. The light isn't above you. It's within you.”
― Elysia Lumen Strife, Shadows of the Son