Paul Lindstrom

“There had been nothing but snow, and if you looked at it long enough, you would begin to hear a white noice - a kind of silence that takes hold of your soul with its cold hands and doesn't release it for a long time.”
― Andrey Kurkov, Grey Bees

“They prefer to be called gay. Queer . . . Queer’s a horrible term.” “Well, it’s what the ones I know call themselves. But tell you what. I’ll introduce you to a few, you can explain to them what they like to be called.”
― Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

“After all, bees alone had managed to establish communism in their hives, thanks to their orderliness and labour. Ants, on the other hand, had only reached the stage of real, natural socialism; this was because they had nothing to produce, and so had merely mastered order and equality. But people? People had neither order nor equality. Even their police were useless, just loafing around by the fence”
― Andrey Kurkov, Grey Bees

“The silence grew louder, more evident. One could stroke it, as one would a cat or a dog; it was warm, and it brushed up against Sergeyich gently, pleading for his involvement, his participation in its life, its sounds.”
― Andrey Kurkov, Grey Bees