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The Writer (San Juan Islands Mystery, #1) The Writer by D.W. Ulsterman
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“There is so much melancholy involved with remembering, isn’t there? We have this ability to recall the things we once loved above all else, but lack the ability to actually relive those moments. It’s like the cruelest of mirages. We see it as it was, but know it shall never be again. It makes one wish to never have remembered it at all.”
D.W. Ulsterman, The Writer
“I prefer obscurity. It allows me to be myself and not have to consider what others would have me be.”
D.W. Ulsterman, The Writer
“I would tell her that I would rather be a great man of few words, than simply another man of too many.”
D.W. Ulsterman, The Writer
“Few things are as attractive or profitable as human tragedy.”
D.W. Ulsterman, The Writer
“promotions to more”
D.W. Ulsterman, The Writer
“Men are good for little, and little good for anyone but themselves, but Phillip is better than most.”
D.W. Ulsterman, The Writer
“Do you think that was the reason he came here, to just get a copy of Dante’s Inferno?” Suze shook her head after taking another sip of coffee. “No, not at all. I know why he came here. It wasn’t to buy a book. It was to experience a place he knew his wife loved to visit. He wanted to see the world through her eyes so as not to forget her. He’s trying to keep her memory alive because if he fails to do that, he will have lost her twice.”
D.W. Ulsterman, The Writer
“It wasn’t just the quiet solitude of the four thousand square foot space that appealed to her, but the smell of the newspapers, magazines, and various other publications that were housed within massive and carefully organized rolling shelves by date and title. It was the aged paper scent of once-living and breathing moments that were, through the cruelty that is the passage of time, demoted to mere remnants of history that she found so fascinating to look over and study.”
D.W. Ulsterman, The Writer