Carla H Krueger

“Shush – it’s silent time again.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Every time I so much as blink you get an erection.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Shame comes in different doses.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Youngsters deserve no opinions.”

— Carla H Krueger

“I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.”

— Carla H Krueger

“I’ll be your friend until you find a better one.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.”

— Carla H Krueger

“You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.”

— Carla H Krueger

“It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.”

— Carla H Krueger

“The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.”

— Carla H Krueger

“He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.”

— Carla H Krueger

“I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food".”

— Carla H Krueger

“I’m warning you because you’re young and vulnerable. He’s a dirty, lying, conniving piece of shit and he’s dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.”

— Carla H Krueger

“She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that…

— Carla H Krueger

“Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged…

— Carla H Krueger

“Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher – her asabikeshiinh – with its willow-web and invisible ‘lady spider’ apparently weaving…

— Carla H Krueger

“Rare contact creates a stir. Gossip spreads. Tensions build. Denying Pissec, miserable Obelmäker and repressed Baumauer are all seething-jealous – openly or…

— Carla H Krueger

“For no real reason – well, perhaps because of the seriousness under the trees or Nader’s hair, which was very messy and…

— Carla H Krueger

“On some days she was able to see both sun and moon at the same time. Like feuding cousins, they hung in…

— Carla H Krueger

“Beyond the boundaries of herself, her parents and the enclosing garden walls, were open fields and other waiting places she still knew…

— Carla H Krueger

“Each day of the week, Kalist indulges himself in a different, secret ritual. On Mondays, he wears cologne. On Tuesdays, he eats…

— Carla H Krueger

“Maxwell D. Kalist is a receiving teller at a city bank, Orwell and Finch, where he runs an efficient department of twenty…

— Carla H Krueger

“Fear spread through the house.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Prayer is better than pills.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Secrets are dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.”

— Carla H Krueger

“To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.”

— Carla H Krueger

“He’s in a side room alone with her and it’s far too fucking hot.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.”

— Carla H Krueger

“A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.”

— Carla H Krueger