Daniel Wentzel

“She wasn’t wearing makeup that night, and didn’t need any. The moonlight was her makeup.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.”
― Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings

“So, Milton,” he said, “welcome to paradise lost.”
― John van de Ruit, Spud

“The couple sat side by side on cushions on the floor, quietly eating breakfast from the low table. They munched in happy and enjoyable silence, of the kind that grows like a vine through the long years of a good marriage, so that when everything that needs to be said has already been pronounced, it is mutually understood that there is an intimate silence that has its own loquacity.”
― Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings