That's Not My Name

A question about leaving, answered with damnation and a wine list.

Where are you going?” I asked him. After everything it has taken to get to this point, he couldn’t just walk away. “To hell, eventually,” Jameson answered. “Probably to the wine cellar, for now.

The Inheritance Games · Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The first time a lawman doubts which side he's on.

I’ve never once in my career wondered if I was on the right side of the law. Until today,” he says quietly. Revenge killings always make us question our standing.

All the Lies · S.T. Abby

A patient's bargain: one illness offers a fight, the other only erasure.

She wished she had cancer instead. She’d trade Alzheimer’s for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she’d have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she’d be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.

Still Alice · Lisa Genova