Peter Giner

“Little by little - no, a lot by a lot - they all took from her. No one gave her anything. Mitsuko became a hollow shell.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“When you see everything you realise nothing means anything.”
― Dennis Cooper, God Jr.

“The sad rocking chair in the corner was actually a joke of a chair: if one started laughing at it, one could die laughing. It was too low for a grown man, and besides, it was so tight, one needed a shoehorn to get back out of it. In short, this room was simply not furnished in a way appropriate to intellectual effort, and I did not intend to keep it any longer.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

“I brought my face up and put my head back, baring my neck to the wind like a lover, to the rain like an offering.”
― Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory