Frank Mikulec

“Good,” Mapp said. “That’s very good. Eat some crabs. Grab Pilcher and smooch him on his face, go wild.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“We can be beacons of light”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure

“Sandy fidgeted with his pen. “There’s something I didn’t write down. Maybe I shouldn’t tell you, you being a judge and all, but, well, Jake Wexler… he’s a bookie.”

No, he should not have told her. “A small-time operator, I’m sure, Mr. McSouthers,” the judge replied coldly. “It can have no bearing on the matter before us. Sam Westing manipulated people, cheated workers, bribed officials, stole ideas, but Sam Westing never smoked or drank or placed a bet. Give me a bookie any day over such a fine, upstanding, clean-living man.”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

“Since the moment of the Fall, God has never stopped searching us out.”
― Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God