The spider’s web is a home and a trap.
There There, Tommy Orange
Category: Quotes
…he had answered “nothing”, that word we answer when we are thinking “everything”.
On Heroes and Tombs, Ernesto Sabato
Men carve meaning into women’s faces; messages addressed to other men.
The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker
… everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn’t change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
But there are tides in the body.
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Making a killing on Wall Street might be a harmless turn of phrase, but it only enjoys traction because of the culture it takes place in.
Irvine Welsh’s intro to American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Wasn’t history an event that repeated unforgettably in the mind?
Love in the New Millennium, Can Xue
If a man flies in Jamaica, and only the poor will admit to seeing it, has he still flown?
Augustown, Kei Miller
They married and had children, every child a portmanteau, a mythical beast, a montage.
Bowlaway, Elizabeth McCracken