Enough bullets had hit Ellie over the years to know when a writer was about to take aim. - John Marrs

Ellie knew how easy it was for someone with money to smother someone without it.

One day I was thinking about a conversation I’d had with my sister Maggie about why she married her husband, John. She was adamant it was love at first sight, and even though they were only fourteen when they met, they knew they’d end up spending the rest of their lives together. I’m a scientist, so naturally I’m skeptical about that kind of thing, but it did get me thinking—what if she was right? What if love at first sight actually exists?

“Don’t be like that, mate. After all, it all turned out okay in the end, right?”
If by okay, he meant a dead fiancée, a child that wasn’t his and his soul mate lost forever on the other side of the world, then yeah, he was great, Nick thought bitterly.