Karen W

“I was halfway up the stairs when the doorbell rang. "Dash it all!" I said. There was nothing I hated more than being interrupted when I was about to do something gratifying with chemicals.”
― Alan Bradley, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

“The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive. He wanted to mortify some flesh, but he didn't know which.”
― Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth

“I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!”
― Sjon, The Blue Fox

“The old man bridled at this. All his life he had gone out of his way to avoid any situation that might be mistaken for a friendship.”
― Dan Rhodes, Little Hands Clapping