Beth

“I heard what I'd learned against my will to identify as new age music. Aimless and spacey, it meandered from unresolved keyboard chord to unresolved keyboard chord with some somnolent noodling in place of melody. Drooling pianos, music to sleepwalk by.”
― Timothy Hallinan, Skin Deep

“I let one of the men rename me. A man gave me the name Rose – you didn’t know that, did you, Poke?…He said, this man, he said that Kwan was too hard to remember, even though it’s a good name and it means ‘spirit,’ and that the rose was the queen of flowers and I was the queen of Patpong.” She laughs, rough as a cough. “The queen of Patpong. A kingdom of whores and viruses. Death with a smile.”
― Timothy Hallinan, The Queen of Patpong

“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
― Julian of Norwich

“The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.”
― Timothy Hallinan, Breathing Water