Ursula Middlemore

“You know, some day, when you’re all older,’ he said, looking around the room, ‘you’re going to have troubles of your own and you’ll have friends who are going through tough times. Maybe it’ll even be one of your own children. And when that happens, you’ll look back at the way you’re all behaving now and wonder whether you might not have been able to show a little more kindness.”
― John Boyne, My Brother's Name is Jessica

“coincidences are seductive”
― Minette Walters, Disordered Minds

“I was taught by my father to be afraid of the world, and some of the lessons stuck. I read about Patty Hearst and the Zodiac Killer and the massacre at the Munich Olympics and Charles Manson, and I knew the world was a terrifying place. He said it all of the time, reminded me that mountains could blow up and kill people in their sleep. Governments were corrupt. A flu could come out of nowhere and kill millions. A nuclear bomb could fall at any second, obliterating everything.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“Bit by bit, we become people we don’t want to be,”
― Nicci French, The Lying Room