JEAN SCIBERRAS

“And those that there are tend to be so deep in the closet you could mistake them for a clothes hanger.”
― Val McDermid, The Mermaids Singing

“I don’t like the news on the radio. It’s always read by girls of some sort who pronounce the place names incomprehensibly. What’s more, one in three of them has a slight speech defect, as though such ones are selected deliberately.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“The arrival of the tray, carried up the stairs as if for an invalid. An invalid, one who has been invalidated. No valid passport. No exit.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood