Julia

“He had come into Elias’s life when the boy was nearly five, wooing both mother and son with such single-minded determination that Sabine, Lady Isidore, laughingly referred to their courtship as a siege.”
― Makiia Lucier, Isle of Blood and Stone

“After all, how do you describe something you cannot see, or hear, or touch? How do you describe something that isn’t really there—not in any true, measurable sense?”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Kingdom

“From the outside everything looks fine,” the dentist said, “but it’s rotten to the core.”
― Karin Fossum, Bad Intentions

“I can’t have him at my place, that would never work. We’d murder each other.”
― Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers