“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” Neuromancer William Gibson Read more

“They shoot the white girl first.” Paradise Toni Morrison Read more

“Call me Ishmael.” Moby-Dick Herman Melville Read more

“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