Jennifer Payne

“Baking and drinking? Who would have guessed,” Eliza teased. “I’m eighty-three years old. I dedicated a good chunk of my life to this town. Now, I can do whatever I like. I can cook, drink, and sing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ in my birthday suit if I want to. As long as I keep the turnovers coming, nobody gives a hoot if I’m three sheets to the wind,”
― Krista Sandor, The Business Card Boyfriend

“His grandparents, Goldie and Rex Starrycard, had retired from the family’s artisan papermaking business. They’d opened a restaurant and were embracing their eighties like college seniors hitting spring break.”
― Krista Sandor, The Business Card Boyfriend

“He was a reader? This guy just kept getting hotter.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“He knew it could be a deer, a squirrel, lots of things. But he hadn’t survived a year of the sun-ravaged world by making assumptions.”
― James Dashner, The Kill Order