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“Svensson is renovating his ruin.”
― Thomas Pletzinger, Funeral for a Dog

“When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.”
― Nicole Krauss, Great House

“I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.”
― António Lobo Antunes, The Land at the End of the World

“The Stark River flowed around the oxbow at Murrayville the way blood flowed through Margo Crane's heart.”
― Bonnie Jo Campbell, Once Upon a River