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The sun was dazzling upon the water, like the dawn of Creation. On days like this, if she stared very hard into the light, she could almost remember how it felt to be alive.

Chris was right. Dickson was hiding something, and she was damn well going to find out exactly what it was.

Wyer, Carol. An Eye for an Eye (Detective Kate Young) (p. 316). Thomas & Mercer. Kindle Edition.

Kate rooted once again for her pills, took them with a large swig of water and waited for the jack-hammering in her chest to desist. Lisa wasn’t the only person living a lie.

Wyer, Carol. An Eye for an Eye (Detective Kate Young) (p. 112). Thomas & Mercer. Kindle Edition.

In Kate’s experience, love and hate were two powerful reasons for people to commit murder.

Wyer, Carol. An Eye for an Eye (Detective Kate Young) (p. 57). Thomas & Mercer. Kindle Edition.

“I’m going to call my mother now,” Akira will say. “Things will be better.” And in his imagination, Yoshiko’s spirit flies above as he walks down the road, the shadow of a horse with wings guiding his way, until he finds a way to call home.

Nagamatsu, Sequoia. How High We Go in the Dark (p. 242). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

My engineer father once told me that marriage and who you fall in love with are largely a matter of chance, chemicals, and how far you’re willing to drive. He said who your kids turn out to be is even more of a crapshoot.

Nagamatsu, Sequoia. How High We Go in the Dark (p. 181). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

Test 4 Echo Peter Watts ****

When it moved, it devoured the crust of the Earth. As we bathed, we absorbed it into us where it began taking apart the things inside that made us human. In the end, it became everything. The word for world was replaced by water; water was replaced by us, strong like a wave with an infinite hunger churning inside.

It Came Gently **

“The Plastic People" by Tobias S. Buckell ****

He laughed. “We left because we could. Because we’re better, richer, superior.” Garrison hit the button, and the airlock doors thudded shut, leaving the Earth child alone in their trash.

Magazine, Lightspeed; Adams, John Joseph. Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 144 (May 2022) (p. 37). Adamant Press. Kindle Edition.

Nobody Ever Goes Home to Zhenzhu by Grace Chan ****

I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat.

Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking (Vintage International) (p. 60). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking (Vintage International) (p. 26). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

THERE ARE RUMOURS of an offensive. We go up to the front two days earlier than usual. On the way we pass a shelled school-house. Stacked up against its longer side is a high double wall of yellow, unpolished, brand-new coffins. They still smell of resin, and pine, and the forest. There are at least a hundred.

Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front (p. 55). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Editi.