So Shall You Reap
Donna Leon
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" In the bedroom that Ralph grew up in, there’s a galaxy of glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling"
"If I’d been told in advance about the blood sacrifice, I would have made up an excuse not to attend the bachelorette party."
"Just smelling donuts makes me sick, and like I was saying, I have to eat one every day because it’s free."
"The air tasted like death; the inhuman, guttural cries coming from what sounded like a hundred tortured souls, rising and falling and rising again, made the hair on the back of her neck stand up."
"It was the worst possible timing—or maybe the best."
'“What a warm welcome back to Saint Ambrose, huh?” she says. “Population: messed up.”'
'Jasper said, “Your father is up for parole again in six months.”'
"Sam Capra watched the assassin enter the middle school gym."
"It’s night but the scene is ablaze with gaudy neon and streetlamps. People everywhere. Like a writhing mass of luridly colored insects."
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