The lieutenant had been wounded while they were still on the water.
A Walk in the Sun by Harry Brown
«For hjertet er livet enkelt: det slår så lenge det kan. Så stopper det.»
My Struggle (Mein Kampf) - Karl Ove Knausgård
“Owen used to like to tease me about how I lose everything, about how, in my own way, I have raised losing things to an art form.”
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave.
“Zum geburtstag viel Gluck! Zum geburtstag viel Gluck! Zum geburtstag alles gut! Zum geburtstag viel Gluck!”
The Orville: Sympathy for the Devil by Seth MacFarlane
“‘An old man should have a dog.’ Dan Chase’s daughter had told him that ten years ago, after his wife died.”
The Old Man by Thomas Perry
Let’s face it: humans are weird.
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human, by Jeremy DeSilva
“On May 7, 1944, in the deep of night, a train carrying the 130th Chemical Processing Company of the U. S. Chemical Warfare Service steamed toward London.”
12 Seconds of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon, by Jamie Holmes
It was the egret, flying out of the lemon grove, that started it.
The Moon-Spinners, by Mary Stewart
“To think–not language.”
A Desolation Called Peace, by Arkady Martine
“From the kitchen, Callie heard Trevor tapping his fingers on the aquarium.”
False Witness, by Karin Slaughter
Charlotte Ellison stood in the centre of the withdrawing room, the newspaper in her hand.
The Cater Street Hangman, by Anne Perry
“Jeff Winston was on the phone with his wife when he died.”
Reply by Ken Grimwood
I have it on audiobook and re-listen to it often.
“On an otherwise ordinary evening in May, a week before his twenty-ninth birthday, Jonathan Hughes met his fate, commuting from another time, another year, another life.”
Killer, Come Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury, by Ray Bradbury (from the first story, “A Touch of Petulance”)
“Have you ever flipped through a beautiful art history book, or studied art history for that matter, and wondered, ‘Um, where are the women?’”
A Big Important Art Book–Now With Women!: Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists and Projects to Help You Become One, by Danielle Krysa
“Good morning, Monk,” Runcorn said with satisfaction spreading over his strong, narrow features.
A Dangerous Mourning, by Anne Perry.
“Lisette Toutournier sighed.”
Everfair, by Nisi Shawl
That’s Replay.
Growing up, I always wondered why everything in Wandernaught seemed so dull.
The Magic of Recluse, by L. E. Modesitt
Central Europe, autumn, 24,000 years ago.
Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors, by Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani
“It lands with a thunk, from nowhere, out of time, out of order, thrown from the future or perhaps from the past, but landing here, in this place, at this moment, which could be any moment, which means, you guess, it’s no moment.”
– Antkind, by Charlie Kaufman