THROWBACK THURSDAY :: Dennis Tafoya

Dennis Tafoya writes some cracking good crime fiction, and this week's word nerd notebook Throwback Thursday passage comes from 2010's The Wolves of Fairmount Park:

• It was insane, she guessed, but it was in her mind that they should have had more kids, she and Brendan. That having one child had been a mistake. That to have one child was a kind of bet with God about the goodness of the world, a hope too fragile to hang so much happiness on.

That's some good stuff right there.