Brick

“When one of tal Kyrte misses steppe and sky, she longs not just for their beauty but also their cruelty. For among the free people the foreawareness of one’s death, and heaven’s indifference to it, is the keenest and most brilliant pleasure, rendering all precious. This is the supreme mystery, the fact of existence itself, before which mortals may only stand in silence.”
― Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons: A Novel

“But still he objected. He was an old man. A cranky old man. I raised two of them already. A celestial voice said, Well then, do it again.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

“Your vast well of ignorance is finally paying off.”
― Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds

“but their faces were all hidden behind blue and white masks whose function seemed to be to make the waitresses breathe their own carbon dioxide, while allowing any COVID-19 virus that happened to be around free passage.”
― Blake Banner, Quantum Kill