"A steel door clapped open as a guard stepped from the bulletproof viewing station across the hall. "Adams!" "That you?" "I told you, I don't know-" The cop pointed straight at him. "Jeffrey Adams! Fro..."
- Davis Bunn
"Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions."
"God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers."
"Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant"."
"Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty."
"For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present."
"I was thinking...""We know," Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker"
"I have a hundred reasons to dislike this gentleman,” Erica reminded herself aloud. “And a thousand reasons more not to go courting with any man.”Lavinia laughed at that. “Whenever has a woman’s heart ..."
"His eyes touched lightly, and passed on."
"He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned."