Argent Talonn

“What’s wrong with Bill McCormick? Can’t he run a washer? I thought he was one of our aerospace brains.” “He’s taking care of Marge,” Kit said, folding the T-shirt. “These things came out nice and white, didn’t they?” She put the folded T-shirt into the laundry basket, smiling. Like an actress in a commercial. That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing suburban housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.”
― Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives

“I've often noticed that when coincidences start happening they go on happening in the most extraordinary way. I dare say it's some natural law that we haven't found out.”
― Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary

“Even the most worthless thing in the world can be beautiful,” she said. “It just takes the right touch.”
― Robert McCammon, Swan Song

“The lovely, loopy script handwriting in the early pages of the diary was wildly different from the pages of accusations; the writing was sharp, all-caps, riotously slanted in the later pages. He opened the front of the diary to show her Frankie’s worried words about her increasingly abusive relationship with Mike Deacon and her fears about leaving him, and then pulled back the pages to reveal the nasty things that were scrawled about Gillian in the end of the book, and she knew those were not Frankie’s words.”
― A.J. Aalto, Closet Full of Bones