“I know next to nothing about her. I do know that they don’t kill just anyone. So, she must be somebody.”
Allison Cowling, The Night of the Detective.
Forming assumptions is effortless.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
Acting is rehearsing.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
Harriets of Fire
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
mix and mangle
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
“I only barely lie, Klara. And only from time to time.”
Crosby Fields, A Reasonable Amount of Trouble.
Whom is doomed.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
“Hail damage. There’s a career in that, son. It’s a serious option for you. Do not doubt me.”
Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.
A “web” is a trap.
Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.
“Question: What is the most difficult task to perform in the twenty-first century?
Answer: To notice what is right in front of you, and to call it what it is.”
Will Bestwyck, Letters from Mr. Palindrome.
