Mole Mann

“Oh, you're usually so good with everybody.' A propensity for sarcasm was
something that Romana had noticed she had developed since joining the Doctor on
his travels. She put it down to meeting so many Earthlings. They were good at
sarcasm. Romana realised that she still needed to work on the skill as the Doctor
seemed oblivious to her use of it.”
― Paul Ebbs, Perfect Timing

“Train held up the head of the statue, the priceless Primavera of Florence, the seventeenth-century prize created by the Great Frenchman Pierre Tranqueville, which he'd found in the gutter next to the Arno and couldn't unload for fifty dollars. In the dim light of the barn loft, the dirty piece of marble looked like a piece of whitened shit.”
― James McBride, Miracle at St. Anna

“Citizens of both sexes withdrew along the walls and watched the water turn into a thin gruel of blood and filth and none could take their eyes from the judge who had disrobed last of all and now walked the perimeter of the baths with a cigar in his mouth and a regal air, testing the waters with one toe, surprisingly petite. He shone like the moon so pale he was and not a hair to be seen anywhere upon that vast corpus, not in any crevice nor in the great bores of his nose and not upon his chest nor in his ears nor any tuft at all above his eyes nor to the lids thereof. The immense and gleaming dome of his naked skull looked like a cap for bathing pulled down to the otherwise darkened skin of his face and neck. As that great bulk lowered itself into the bath the waters rose perceptibly and when he had submerged himself to the eyes he looked about with considerable pleasure, the eyes slightly crinkled, as if he were smiling under the water like some pale and bloated manatee surfaced in a bog while behind his small and close-set ear the wedged cigar smoked gently just above the waterline.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“You do realise that sentence contained three halves?’
‘It’s a crazy universe, Doctor.”
― Paul Ebbs, Doctor Who: The Book of the Still