Dan Preast

“If you can create a weapon that causes enough fear the fear itself can cause damage that's as paralyzing and destructive as any physical device like a bomb or a laser gun. Fear can make decent people behave irrationally and violently.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Chaos

“What is it, he wondered, that compels the elderly to fill every square inch of space with knickknacks, as if each bit of junk they amass will add another year to their dwindling lives?”
― Vivian Barz, Forgotten Bones

“This just isn’t the sort of restaurant where five-foot-two-inch women in work clothes go shaking their ass while chanting something akin to a high school cheer. But right now, I give exactly zero fucks.”
― Lauren Landish, Dirty Talk

“Sunsets are never simple.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing