A big, fat book

Quote of the week:

Ivy sat up straight. She scanned the judge's desk, set high upon a raised platform. He had his hammer, but she didn't see any book.
And then he spoke. "I sentence you," he began- Ivy closed her eyes tight, but even in the dark of her eyelids she saw a big, fat book sailing straight toward them all- "to twenty-five years."

- Carolyn Coman, The Big House