Marilyn

“Murakami played with the formulas of mass literature—what is elsewhere termed formulaic fiction—but at the last minute subverted the expectations of those formulas and left the reader wondering what had just happened. This to some degree accounted for the peculiar sense of simultaneous thrill and discouragement one often felt at the end of some of these texts.”
― Matthew Strecher, The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami

“Dârayavahush”
― Brent Weeks, The Burning White

“Gavin’s guile”
― Brent Weeks, The Burning White

“Anyone,’ Avallac’h wiped his hands on a rag, ‘can foretell the future. And everyone does it, for it is simple. It is no great art to foretell it. The art is in foretelling it accurately.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Tower of Swallows