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Iain Banks
“I killed little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general. I had, after all, accounted for two male children and thus done womankind something of a statistical favour. If I really had the courage of my convictions, I reasoned, I ought to redress the balance at least slightly. My cousin was simply the easiest and most obvious target.”
Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory

Yvonne Korshak
“As Aristocleia raised her cup to toast Xanthippus, her gown slipped from her shoulders, exquisite as Aphrodite’s, and flowed like the water that slid over her naked breasts when she allowed him to watch her bathe. It was wonderful to possess a gem of a woman. It made a man feel beautiful and godlike himself, briefly.”
Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

Jerome K. Jerome
“We are as children whose small feet have strayed into some dim-lit temple of the god they have been taught to worship but know not;”
Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

Mary Doria Russell
“Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who talk too much? You could call it On and On Anon.”
Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

Arthur Golden
“In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.”
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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