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“You certainly ask a lot of questions for a bookseller, don’t you?”
― Lauren Elliott, Murder in the First Edition

“He wanted nothing to do with this job or these people. When he turned back to the car, the hot flash of a .45-caliber pistol powered a single blast right between his eyes.”
― Wanda M. Morris, All Her Little Secrets

“She remained so stoic that I could have slapped her, but I used every drop of grace I had cultivated as a Black woman in America to hold myself together.”
― Amber Fisher, Temple of the Inner Flame

“First, my name wasn’t Valerie. Second, I hadn’t been in his bed last night. Finally, we were going to be busy this afternoon. GETTING MARRIED.”
― Melanie Harlow, Runaway Love

“soon lie. The hospice nurse said she’ll pass by the end of the day. It’s odd. Some people never see it coming, others have a countdown, and I don’t know which is worse.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“There’s clearly a whole history between Julia Child and Kristofer Kolumbes”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties

“cloud of smoke, she saw Jake’s body drop to the ground like a broken marionette.”
― Liv Constantine, The First Shot

“Daphne left her at the house alone to go pick up the girls, she’d tried on every pair of Daphne’s underwear.”
― Liv Constantine, The Last Mrs. Parrish

“do. Has he ever stopped to wonder why being a mom actually is the hardest job in the world and not just something thoughtless people say? It’s because there’s never a day off—not just a day, but an hour, not so much as a minute. Is she sick? Is she feeling under the weather? Too bad! There’s no one to cover”
― Chandler Baker, Cutting Teeth

“That’s a bit harsh, don’t you think? Our eyes are supposed to be laser-focused on our kids at all”
― Chandler Baker, Cutting Teeth

“I’m sorry, I really have to go,” Griff says.”
― Chandler Baker, Cutting Teeth

“There it is again, this idea that good mother means worrying, constant, expert worrying. The energy in her house is combustible.”
― Chandler Baker, Cutting Teeth

“Life comes at us fast. Responsibilities, kids, opportunities—it all rushes at us with projectile force.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go

“Hendrix has been going around me to sneakily investigate how much Lottie’s gym fees are and pay them.”
― Kennedy Ryan, This Could Be Us

“Got no business all up in my man’s face. Stay in a child’s place.”
― Sadeqa Johnson, The House of Eve

“My grandmother, Birdie, was born a slave. Her white father owned an infamous slave jail in Richmond”
― Sadeqa Johnson, The House of Eve

“Black farmers never got their forty acres and a mule, the promised reparation for their years of enslavement and the wealth their stolen labor had created for this country.”
― Kamala Harris, 107 Days