Status Updates From Gesegnetes Wasser: Ein Schw...

"Time is not a straight line—it’s not straight at all. Time is queer. Doing whatever it wants, and just when you think you understand it, it surprises you."

The water theme seems more heavy handed in this book than the fire theme in the previous

I'm guessing Sister Honor knew what Father Nathan was up to

"Rawdogging life, the nun’s way." The new definition of this term used in this modern mystery novel...

"“Father Nathan, question mark?”" Riveaux does this question mark thing, but not always, not consistently, and it's not explained.

"Good holy and true Lord in heaven, why does the human species dote? Why do we cling to the people and creatures and places that don’t need us and can’t keep us?"

"Lord, forgive my low threshold for dweebs, for rich and entitled teenagers with dynastic wealth."

"All I knew was this: Ruin can be sweet, too."

"Cigarettes were her last vice. Mine too." They were mine too, but that wasn't enough for people I guess

The power flickered, on and off. The storm was in a mood. Elements, like emotions, were difficult to wrangle. Jesus walked on water and Moses tamed it, but God used water to power wash the world to oblivion when people screwed up.

“You think dropping the body in the water was intentional to wash away DNA, question mark?” Riveaux asked the CSI guy.
“Of course.” He swooped his big, gloved hands. “Getting rid of evidence is the primary reason to dump a body in the water.”
Water, a blessing when it cleanses, quenches, and renews. A curse when it erodes, erases, and razes.

A person’s smell, like their voice, was unique to them, their chemistry and pheromones. How easily your voice breaks when telling a lie, how quickly your essence becomes feral when the walls of modern life fall away. Gel manicures. Hair dye. Fake tans. Crest Whitestrips. The hilarious ways we dress up the core condition of being a human animal.