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“I should have been sorry for her, at any other time; but for now if they had laid her and ten more ladies like her down upon the floor and told me my way out was across their backs, I'd have run it with clogs on.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“You smell,' she began, slowly and wonderingly, 'like -'
'Like a herring!'I said bitterly. My cheeks were hot now and very red; there were tears, almost, in my eyes. I think she saw my confusion and was sorry for it.
'Not at all like a herring,' she said gently.'But perhaps, maybe, like a mermaid...”
― Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

“Other tokens of maturity included a velvet choker of tiny pearls, the ginger tresses gathered at the nape and secured with an emerald clasp, three loose silver bracelets around a freckled wrist, and the fact that whenever she moved, the air about her tasted of rose water.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Mr Bliss looked grave. 'Your brother was very sensible to warn you, Miss Astley - but sadly misinformed. There are no trams in Trafalgur Square - only buses and hansoms, and broughams like our own. Trams are for common people; you should have to go quite as far as Kilburn, I'm afraid, or Camden Town, in order to by struck by a tram”
― Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

“Tatty says oh yes, she knows what he's like. But when she thinks about it, she doesn't.”
― Christine Dwyer Hickey, Tatty

“I got cheered greatly, not because I did well, but because the main point in my part was to look foolish, and I feel that I did that to perfection.”
― Jon Lellenberg, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

“Then there was an odd snack called 'bread and beer' in the afternoon, a bit of dry bread and the most extraordinary drink, which was brown but had no other characteristics of beer.”
― Jon Lellenberg, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

“I have bad news to tell you two poor boys have died at stonyhurst within the last 3 weeks from getting croup. to my great delight 50 new books have been brought for the library.”
― Jon Lellenberg, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

“My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.”
― Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

“Had a note from Mr Cherry asking me when I can resume my paper round. I sent a note back to say that due to my mother's desertion I am still in a mental state. This is true. I wore odd socks yesterday without knowing it. One was red and one was green. I must pull myself together. I could end up in a lunatic asylum.”
― Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

“Mrs O'Leary said, 'Tis the child I feel sorry for', and all the people looked up and saw me, so I looked especially sad, I expect the experience will give me a trauma at some stage in the future. I'm all right at the moment, but you never know.”
― Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

“Oh, for shame! Nancy, have you never seen Florrie's face in a chrysanthemum, or a rose?'

'Never.' I said. 'Though there was a flounder for sale on a fishmonger's barrow, in Whitechapel yesterday, and the likeness was quite uncanny. I very nearly brought it home...”
― Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

“The juggling comes to an end now, but the struggling does not. I have Liesel Meminger in one hand, Max Vandenburg in the other. Soon I will clap them together. Just give me a few pages.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“When I found it amongst the book thief's words, I realised that we passed each other once in a while during that period, though neither of us scheduled a meeting. Personally, I had a lot of work to do. As for Hans, I think he was doing his best to avoid me.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“A Mr Canning, sir,' announced Morris. 'He's very upset. He says someone has abducted his entire family.'

'If that's true, he has a right to be upset! How sure is he of this? Are there any witnesses?'

'No, but you'd better speak to him, Mr Ross. He's a-' A curiously bland expressing crosses the sergeant's face. 'He is a taxpayer, sir.'

'Ah,' I said. 'I think I understand you. He believes he pays our wages and therefore we are here to do his bidding.'

'It's the impression he gave me, sir'

'Then show this tax-paying gentleman in, Morris, without delay.”
― Ann Granger, The Testimony of the Hanged Man

“Miss Stephens, observing the chaos that was normal for central London at that hour of the day, observed, 'This is very disorganised. Cannot it be better arranged”
― Ann Granger, The Testimony of the Hanged Man

“The reallly funny thing is that Steve made that little clicking noise with his tongue, and winked at me, as if to show that he was on my side of something. Except you're not on my side, are you Steve? Because if you were on my side you just would have handed me the dictionary like a grown-up. Because if you make a big fucking gesture of it Steve, then it becomes a big fucking deal. But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of nothing. And they all do it for themselves.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

“This is my life. I'm nineteen years old, and the only thing I have any control over in my entire world is the way I choose to tell this story. So I'm hardly going to fuck about.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

“HELLO, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

“They are all well-qualified members of the counter-culture. They are allowed to be here.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

“She might as well be telling me a story of how she once confused 'Push' for 'Pull' on a door, then banning me from using doors again - 'Lest you also be betrayed by doors.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

“I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it’s always sunny above the clouds. Always. That every day on earth—every day I have ever had—was secretly sunny, after all.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

“Wars were giant parties for the ruling elites, who sometimes thought it might be great fun to make the poor kill each other.”
― Jarett Kobek, I Hate the Internet

“He was also one of the twelve Presidents of the United States to own slaves, which is a larger figure than the number of Presidents who had beards.”
― Jarett Kobek, I Hate the Internet

“People came in search of alcohol and food and the illusion that if you combined alcohol and food, they added up to meaning.”
― Jarett Kobek, I Hate the Internet

“Darling, what I wouldn't give for some friends as wild and maniacal as dear sweet Edward Snowden.”
― Jarett Kobek, I Hate the Internet

“No such thing as larger-than-life, Kellogg. There's only life-size, and any magnification is just other people's bullshit.”
― Lionel Shriver, The New Republic

“I’m a journalist, and journalists need news. Deprive them of it, and they go a bit barking. Deprive them of news long enough, and they’ll make their own - much the way the starving will eventually turn to cannibalism.”
― Lionel Shriver, The New Republic

“I’d no idea that you’d prove such an able apprentice. You were sure to be a journalist, in which case the chances were terribly high that you’d also be a prat.”
― Lionel Shriver, The New Republic