The Praying Mantis Bride (Nameless: Season One, #3)

by Dean Koontz

she is wasted into a bony form that suggests some species of spider that, instead of building webs, spins misery that sustains her in place of food.

fruition. The past cannot be altered, but he can take steps to change the future.

Justice has been twisted by culture and politics until its meaning is everywhere contested. Each of their missions is instead meant to bring truth and its consequences into the life of someone who has woven a persona of lies, thereby putting an end to his or her crimes.

to tie tiny knots in their psyches.

This absence of light is fitting, for the purpose of this flight is to deliver darkness to darkness.

The repetition of the word carries her backward through time, backward through the significant moments of a life devoted to hatred and tethered to superstitions that have spared her from knowing any truth.