Constance

“Scratch a professor and you find a paranoiac, Barlow thought. But scratch a dean and you find a con artist.”
― Paul La Farge, The Night Ocean

“I'm talking about the rest of it too. You know. The rest. Why we do it. Why we strike a match. Why we built any lighthouses in the first place and every other thing you think on a good day might save a life. We're not the ones who decide, but we wouldn't be human if we didn't set these attempts in place. Put in as many lights as we can, while we're here. Get them shining bright. Keep them shining when the dark comes in.”
― Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

“In all my years I've realized there are two kinds of people. The ones who hear a creak in a dark, lonely house, and shut the windows because it must have been the wind. And the ones who hear a creak in a dark, lonely house, light a candle, and go to take a look.

[Helen Black]”
― Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

“I'm any face in a crowd; just the Lord's way of filling in the gaps.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle