“Do I look like a mess?” she asked.
He nodded. “But you’re my mess,” he whispered.”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton
““It was an old passion,” he said. “I haven’t touched a violin for months. I didn’t know what that would be like.”
“What is it like?” she asked.
He began to walk so that she almost missed his answer. “An amputation,” he whispered.”
— Octavia E. Butler, book Clay's Ark
Source: Clay's Ark (1984), Chapter 14 (p. 533)
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