Madison

“Sounds like you'd do a bunch," Liv breathed.

Beneath the brim of her hat, I found her eyes.

"You would not rest," I said.”
― Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea

“A show in progress. A story unfolding. The theater goes dark for a scene change. The orchestra, though, continues to play. A riff on the show’s dominant melody fills the house—somber or suspenseful or sweepingly romantic—and the tone of the next scene starts there, with the music.”
― Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea

“I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Most of us are never seen, not clearly, and when we are we likely jump and run.”
― Peter Heller, The Painter