The minisub burbled up to the surface like a bout of bad…

“She belongs with me, not to me.”

— Madeline Ashby

“You know a lot of sick people,” he said. “I know a lot of dead people.” Sandro reached over to a shelf above the…

— Madeline Ashby

“It always takes Ignacio a minute to put his sexy together.”

— Madeline Ashby

“It's us, you know, it's us who can't handle that kind of love. We're apes. Literally. We don't know shit about unconditional love. So…

— Madeline Ashby

“They hate women,” Moore said. “Serial killers are the zenith of misogyny.” “No, Mr. Moore, that would be the invention of the corset,”

— Madeline Ashby

“The dance took place on a viewpoint level of Tower Four. Each hour, the whole floor would make a single revolution, so couples at…

— Madeline Ashby

“For the first time in Javier’s life, he understood why the Tin-Man had wanted a heart. It would be better, if he knew what…

— Madeline Ashby

“Charlotte leveled him with a glare the likes of which he had never seen in synthetic women. It seemed to penetrate his every cell,…

— Madeline Ashby

“She looked up and he was looking at her, too, and it was like kissing - or perhaps the moment just before kissing, or…

— Madeline Ashby

“It wasn't a hug - hugs ended quickly, even long ones, but this one persisted into something else entirely.”

— Madeline Ashby

“It was too late, of course, for California. But California has always been a place where dreams go to live or die.”

— Madeline Ashby