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That was the first mistake, and everything got worse from there. Like a button on a shirt buttoned wrong, every attempt to correct things led to yet another fine—not to say elegant—mess.
“And those that there are tend to be so deep in the closet you could mistake them for a clothes hanger.”
― The Mermaids Singing
― 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.”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
“He wanted me to play Scrabble with him, and kiss him as if I meant it. This is one of the most bizzarre things that’s happened to me, ever. Context is all.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― 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.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“He had laid out a highly plausible scenario that included a motive, a weapon, opportunity, and perhaps most important, a seemingly false alibi that would cause the jurors to immediately question what Sloane was about to stand and tell them.”
― Murder One
― Murder One
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