Tom Robinson Quote by Karin Slaughter

“They drive back home to grab his backpack and as he bends and kisses his grandma Agnes, she scrunches a one-hundred-dollar bill in his…

— Melina Marchetta

“I guess that was nice of Chiron, for the dogs' sake, but it kind of makes me wonder if he's got a Percy Jackson…

— Rick Riordan

“(talking about his father) 230 pounds of nickels in Sears slacks.”

— Bruce Springsteen

“People give me such a headache. Everybody wants to nickel-and-dime. Ten bags of mulch for, like, four thousand square feet. Jesus.' His hands dropped…

— Brigid Kemmerer

“My mother was in the bathtub crying and I was standing outside the door waiting, just in case she decided to slip her head…

— Eula Biss

“All in all, it was the goldarndest, Barnum-and-Baileyest, rib-stickinest, rough-and-tumblest infernal foofaraw of a media circus anybody had seen since grandpaw chased the possum…

— John Varley

“ Thwack. The nail drove deeper, as if Montgomery was driving it into my very heart. How hard was it to fix a loose…

— Megan Shepherd

“A dollar for a human bought a loaf of bread that was eaten in a few bites. The same dollar for Wee Mad Arthur…

— Terry Pratchett

“If I had a dollar for every time someone told me I reminded them of Orafoura’s shadow, I’d have a penny more than ninety…

— Jarod Kintz

“Petey, when I undress you with my eyes, I get blinded by that fluorescent orange crab-trap you call your bush and immediately dress you…

— J.F. Smith

“Melvin Brands took bread, and the foot, wrapped in camphored cloth.”

— Julie Berry

“He knew America, and even though he hadn't been there in fifteen years, he knew what its soldiers liked because of what one of…

— David Finkel