Alex Pelling

“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature, but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short. (...) If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself, and makes one.”
― Walt Whitman, Poems by Walt Whitman

“It’s so unreal and beastly.’ ‘Murder is beastly. Unfortunately it’s not unreal.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Hand in Glove