Murphy

“Mahdokht turned pale. She did not know how to respond to this insult. What was this guy thinking? Who did he think she was? What did he really want?”
― Shahrnush Parsipur, Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran

“Reagan's been dead for years--a servo-operated cadaver and a tape machine.”
― Terry Tierney, The Bridge on Beer River

“Making love near nutated African violets on the
last day of the world was a possibility we never discussed.”
― Terry Tierney, The Bridge on Beer River

“With perfect twenty-twenty hindsight, when it was too late to really matter, she'd pin the discomfort down to the muted screams of instinct, that sixth sense of animal knowledge trying to tell her that her other senses were lying, that this was more than what it seemed.”
― Taylor Stevens, The Mask