Bob Godden

“Technology, as he saw it, had finally succeeded in shrinking the globe, so much so that every news story felt dangerous and personal, every war a threat to his family, every firestorm, hurricane, and melting ice cap a local disaster, the seas boiling up around them, every cynical political and legal maneuver part of the same rotten fabric—and half the country somehow seeing it exactly the opposite way.”
― Jess Walter, So Far Gone

“You got a face that belongs in the movies and a body that should be a crime to cover.”
― Mickey Spillane, Vengeance Is Mine

“You don’t seem like a man who loves to fail, so why are you so good at it?”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“No one needed a magic wardrobe that opened into Narnia if they had a library card; if you had a library card, you had a thousand magic wardrobes to choose from, ten thousand.”
― Joe Hill, King Sorrow