“A ray of sunlight poked through the mass of angry clouds.”
― Steel Blood
― Steel Blood
“Few would have seen Solomon and realised they were looking at one of wartime London’s top gangsters. With his receding hairline, thick-lenses spectacles, sober tie and dark two-piece suit, he resembled a local bank manager, accountant or shop owner.”
― Death of an Officer
― Death of an Officer
“Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?”
―
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?”
―
“She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun. Under the long shaggy ridges, she felt the future stirring.”
― O Pioneers!
― O Pioneers!
“This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
― Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
― Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
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