Michelle

“The couple looked at each other with the single thought that their doctor must have lost his mind. ‘What does this have to do with my earache?’ asked Stamatis suspiciously. ‘You have an exorbitant auditory impediment,’ replied the doctor, ever conscious of the necessity for maintaining a certain iatric mystique, and fully aware that ‘a pea in the ear’ was unlikely to earn him any kudos.”
― Louis de Bernières, Corelli's Mandolin

“she expected the crowd to charge forward like Americans at a Black Friday sale.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Murders in Great Diddling

“Doesn’t it gives you hope?’ he says suddenly. ‘Hope?’ ‘Yes,’ he says. ‘Isn’t it a relief that there’re things still like that, a real bit of Old England still left, despite all these immigrants coming in?’ I don’t know what to say. His words hang and all the awkwardness is silence.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“the outside embellishments prompting complaints from her neighbors, a fussy collection of former gated-community doyennes and HOA scolds.”
― Lucas Schaefer, The Slip: A Novel