Claudia Sorsby

“Crime bookshops smell weird, because of all that cheap paper in one place.”
― Tom Spencer, The Mystery of the Crooked Man

“Might have stayed': the emptiest tense of all, not just past but conditional, the breeding ground of yearning and regret and counter-factual speculation.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Parallel Lines

“Eduardo: DO IT IN PERSON YOU UNBELIEVABLE PASTRY FORK OF A MAN”
― John Scalzi, When the Moon Hits Your Eye

“I don't know how you feel about him, Master Giorgio, but I consider the god Bacchus an ingrate because we paid him a magnificent tribute last night and all he gave me in return is a terrible humming between my ears and a bodily feebleness that renders me incapable of any task, notably that of leaving the house.”
― Laurent Binet, Perspective