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“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,�� he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,�� he said.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“We’re so very sorry about this latest murder. Ignore Simon’s levity.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

“All happened so damn fast,�� he said. “’Phone call here after she arrived. Her mom and dad were just after leaving Halifax…ten cars, twelve maybe, made it onto the CBC News.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

“The telegram was sealed �� an old-fashioned touch, I thought, but then I’d never had a telegram before. I took my time opening it. I said nothing.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

“With Finn, Vic, and Maeve shooting darts at him, Buster thought better of bellyaching and took off down the street with Finn.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

“Dearie, I’m not going to speak for other people.�� Megan manoeuvred her lips into a smile, but her eyes stayed cold. “Now. What else would you like to see me about?��
“Do you think things will go backwards if the Rowlands push for change?��
“It’s not my place to judge that, but I’ll tell you this for nothing. The Rowlands aren’t the only ones with a vested interest in everything around here. They might own it on paper, but folks make their living here, and if the Rowlands threaten that, they’ll get more than they bargained for.��
Something in Megan’s tone caused Saskia to tense. The smile that Megan continued to hold on her lips seemed now an image of threat.”
― Miriam Verbeek, The Forest: An idylic Australian setting harbouring a criminal secret

“I felt the rough fingers of Papa’s hands brushing away my tears. “Enough
tears, Mija. Enough tears.”
― Steven Decker, INNOCENT AGAIN: A LEGAL THRILLER

“The only clarity �� if oppressive fog could ever be clarity �� was the violent, throbbing, boiling agony pressing her against the ground.
There were sounds, too: shouting, screaming, banging, thudding, squawking, chittering.
It hurt to breathe.
“No snake! No snake!�� A woman’s voice shrilled.
“Christ sake! Let the bloody thing out. That one, too.�� A man’s voice, shouting – bellowing – commands.
A hand lifted her wrist, and through the torment of pain, she realised that fingers were releasing her watch strap.”
― Miriam Verbeek, The Forest: An idylic Australian setting harbouring a criminal secret

“The woman waved her long fingers in front of my face as if casting a spell, weaving her hands around one another while her fingers writhed like snakes”
― Steven Decker, INNOCENT AGAIN: A LEGAL THRILLER

“She reached the door to the forbidden room. The door with the light escaping through the cracks. Her hands shook. Her eyes watered from the pull. She panted, her chest visibly moving in and out. Her teeth clenched. She switched off the flashlight, turned the knob, and pushed. ”
― Chad Boudreaux, Homecoming Queen

“The woodland made it impossible to run in a straight line. She ran deeper, unsure of her bearing or when she might find civilization. Headlights ahead to the right preceded a drumming of tires on the pavement. The truck stopped. Sharnee altered her course toward the truck and screamed. Fifteen seconds later she pitched forward as if someone grabbed her ankle and threw her to the ground.”
― Steve Rush, Lethal Impulse

“Ascending the creaky steps, she heard the old timers discussing the weather. But this wasn’t the usual small talk. They ranked Texas storms. Not by category, wind speed, or monetary damage, but by casualties—body count. ”
― Chad Boudreaux, Homecoming Queen

“George looked around the office. Five dirty and chipped desks, one with a missing leg held upright with a stack of out-of-date telephone books, a two-year out-of-date calendar, a filing cabinet overflowing with case notes, four chairs all with tears in the fabric, and a printer that hadn’t worked since, well since ever �� having no print cartridges was obviously an issue.”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point

“Why is it that school is still always so much like school?
humour, school,”
― Katie Hall-May, Memories of a Lost Thesaurus

“It is a private battlefield, the school arena, perhaps created by adults, but a war, nonetheless, that they cannot easily fight in. I informed the headmaster that if he could prove that a teacher could have thumped Georgie Smales as effectively, then I would be willing, next time, to call a teacher. I would, I told him, very much like to see that.”
― Katie Hall-May, Memories of a Lost Thesaurus

“Everything washes up here��, she said. ‘Even dead bodies”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point

“The Convention Centre had caused great consternation in Vanuatu for many years. All of this was the result that Vanuatu didn’t want it, Vanuatu didn’t ask for it, and Vanuatu couldn’t afford it. That hadn’t stopped the generosity of the Chinese Government insisting on building it with very favourable financial terms.”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point

“The economy of your country shall never determine the size of your three square meals if you know you can rise against and above all limitations! The climatic emergencies in the weather shall never determine your survival rates if you know you are above their standards!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Man the sum of his climatic experiences”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“The entire horrid trip has held up a harsh mirror for his own life of privilege and chronic narcissism.”
― Guy Morris, The Last Ark: Lost Secrets of Qumran

“Feeling the weight and motion of her body like feeling each wave as I swim out to sea I watch her taste that sweet spot where everything else melts away. Moving to revive in her a fully climatic experience that forces her into a restful and suspireful awakening, the pendulum-like motion of her bridge between heaven and earth slides over my engorged pileus vein. With a bleating cry in feeling this state of elated bliss her seashell pussy then feels an orgasmic �Բ�š�ɲ�. A filling and peaking drug of choice with a sudden rush separating the spirit from body.”
― Luca Evola, Arabala

“No one can find what they do not seek.”
― Guy Morris, The Last Ark: Lost Secrets of Qumran

“All happened so damn fast,�� he said. “’Phone call here after she arrived.  Her mom and dad were just after leaving Halifax…ten cars, twelve maybe, made it onto the CBC News��.”
― Michael W. Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

“The telegram was sealed �� an old-fashioned touch, I thought, but then I’d never had a telegram before.  I took my time opening it.  I said nothing.”
― Michael W. Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows