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

“With that man you wanted it to work, to work out. Working out was also something you did to keep your body in shape, for the man. If you worked out enough, maybe the man would too. Maybe you would be able to work it out together, as if the two”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“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