Sandy

“We are passing the Schloß Marienburg.” Field stooped and peered up at a massive walled castle. Below, the greenish-gray river was spanned by an arched stone bridge. “This is Würzberg, Inspector. Here”
― Tim Mason, The Darwin Affair

“his name possibly handed down through generations like an heirloom—a coin or a favorite piece of jewelry—from long-dead ancestors who possessed no tokens to pass along, save for their names and their stories.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Book of Lost Friends

“It calmed him, reminded him life offered a whole bounty of good things from the simple to the amazing. You just had to take a few minutes now and then to find them.”
― Nora Roberts, Hideaway

“Thomas Huxley commented that Wilberforce’s brain had at last come into contact with reality, and the result had been fatal.”
― Tim Mason, The Darwin Affair