End Of February Quote by JoAnn Bassett

“there was a battered desk with its drawers open and askew, like a lady of the night with her heels kicked off and pantyhose…

— Jen Frederick

“Dirty mugs crowded a side table, the recycling bin was overflowing, and stacks of letters stood unopened. It all told a tale of grief…

— Jane Harper

“A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll…

— George R.R. Martin

“He took a sheet of paper out of a desk drawer. But what would he write? The day’s work had hardly involved more than…

— Henning Mankell

“Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.”

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“He was hoping that when this was all over, his spiritual overdraft would have been paid off, and he’d be allowed to use the…

— Nick Hornby

“If you did ’Nam, brother, no payment at all. You already paid up in full.” —”

— Stephen Hunter

“With no sums to keep his conscience at bay, the black book loomed large, creeping into his line of sight. He scanned the room…

— Karen Witemeyer

“...money – leastways we thought it was money till everything smashed up, and then seemingly it was jes’ paper...”

— H.G. Wells

“That's how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you're invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here,…

— Martine Bailey

“paper from the drawer and started to write:”

— Catherine Woods

“A vending machine hung tilted from the wall, advertising laundry soap at fifty yen a packet to customers who might as well have been…

— Barry Eisler