Murphy

“Reagan's been dead for years--a servo-operated cadaver and a tape machine.”
― Terry Tierney, The Bridge on Beer River

“It doesn't make sense for a woman to go out in the first place. Home is for women, the outside world for men.”
― Shahrnush Parsipur, Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran

“With perfect twenty-twenty hindsight, when it was too late to really matter, she'd pin the discomfort down to the muted screams of instinct, that sixth sense of animal knowledge trying to tell her that her other senses were lying, that this was more than what it seemed.”
― Taylor Stevens, The Mask

“Esther's breath quickened. Ruth removed her hand because she was never sure how people felt about touch. A light brush could agonize, whereas a heavy blow might numb, but most excruciating was nothing at all. so Ruth returned her hand...”
― Gail Lynn Hanson, The Palisades: A Novel