“He – for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it – was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.” Orlando Virginia Woolf Read more

“Nurse Thornton dropped into the long-term-care ward a little before eight with a hot bag of blood for Charlie Manx.” NOS4A2 Joe Hill Read more

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.”   Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Read more

“It was not until several weeks after he had decided to murder his wife that Dr. Bickleigh took any active steps in the matter. Murder is a serious business.” Malice Aforethought Frances Iles Read more

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. 1984 George Orwell Read more

Log Entry: Sol 6 I’m pretty much fucked.   The Martian Andy Weir Read more

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Read more

“Tolstoy clearly never spent any time with my happy family.” Appetites: A Cookbook Anthony Bourdain Read more

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.” Paul Clifford… Read more