"She Had Heard Of The Genetic Code That Could Shape An Eye Or Hand From Passing Proteins. Deoxyribonucleic

"She had heard of the genetic code that could shape an eye or hand from passing proteins. Deoxyribonucleic acid. It contained the entire set of instructions for constructing a respiratory system and a digestive one, as well as the grip of an infant's hand. Chess was like that. The geometry of a position could be read and reread and not exhausted of possibility. You saw deeply into this layer of it, but there was another layer beyond that, and another." -The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

"With the county divided about history, identity and the basic dilemma of whether Spain is a single nation or a collection of them, further progress may take time. Yet there are still many dreams that all Spaniards share. The vast majority want, in some form, the windows to the world that Franco and others tried to shut to remain open so that Miguel de Unamuno's 'four winds' can blow in."

España: a Brief History of Spain, by Giles Tremlett

"Perhaps some of us are simply born evil, and despite our best efforts we remain that way."

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

The Farm at Oak Park, Pillsbury United

Kim gets sent up north

"Hearts stopped beating. People put guns to their chests. There was no one and nothing she could ever know well enough to make it stay."

The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier