Bruce Myers

“Abominable business this MacAuley affair,’ said Peters to no one in particular. ‘Absolutely dreadful,’ tutted Mrs Tebbit. ‘It makes you wonder if any of us are safe in our beds.’ I could have pointed out that MacAuley hadn’t been murdered in his bed, but five miles away in an alley behind a whore house.”
― Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man

“They just got up in the morning, put on their clothes and began.”
― Seamus O'Rourke, Standing in Gaps

“I can and do dislike him intensely when he pins my king and a rook with his lurking knight,’ said Stephen,”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop