Bluebeard's Castle
Anna Biller
"Being inside a church always made her feel good, and her anxious brow relaxed as she absorbed the peaceful and uplifting atmosphere."
"Being inside a church always made her feel good, and her anxious brow relaxed as she absorbed the peaceful and uplifting atmosphere."
"xShe needed Varnas to protect her from the presence that had visited her the night before. It was almost too much. The strain of repressing it left her nerves thin..."
"Every single person in Plumpton knows that Lucy Chase killed my sister. It’s just that no one can prove it."
"Matthew Meacham’s body quaked, his mind raced, and his skin burned."
"In his other hand he held what looked like a child’s wooden baseball bat, the end wrapped in a dark fabric that seemed to arch and writhe. Blood, my brain would not yet permit me to acknowledge."
"Liz felt a prickling sensation at the back of her neck and had the feeling she was being watched."
"‘Life is priceless,’ Cassie said, with practiced sympathy. ‘But your NTPs all have a dollar value.'"
"He was out on Grand Nacre Drive. The driver said he came out of nowhere."
“You were born six minutes apart. Not six years, you know…you don’t have to go along with whatever she wants.”
"There are things I can’t ever admit, she whispered, things that are too big, too much..."
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