Anthony Surprise

“She hadn’t expected to experience this pleasure in her grief, to find it invigorating, in a way. But even as she’s dying, she’s realized, life goes on—even as the cancer invades her body, she still checks Twitter. At first she thought, Why would I waste even ten minutes of the time I have left checking Twitter? And then she thought, Why wouldn’t I? I like Twitter!”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

“As I watched the US I thought I knew devolve, seemingly overnight, into an unrecognizable landscape—a place where political pundits threw up Nazi salutes in front of news cameras, unafraid—a place where swastikas bloomed like fetid flowers on the walls of synagogues and mosques—I knew the time had come.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Ragged Edge of Night

“Can a man set right his past? With these questions came the possible futility of the ride and the hopelessness of absolution. The guilt was unbearable.”
― Josh Malerman, Unbury Carol

“There was little time. Wasting time on questions would cost Werner Graf his life. She thought of his wife and daughters, innocent of the crimes he might have committed on behalf of the Reich. She wasn’t carrying much herself—just the loaded revolver. It was all she thought she’d need tonight.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest