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Colette Webber
Colette Webber is on page 455 of 559 of The Secret History
(This book’s kinda too long lol. Heres a phrase I saw and liked)

‘She was a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool’
Dec 02, 2025 03:24PM Add a comment
The Secret History

Colette Webber
Colette Webber is on page 150 of 368 of The Loney
‘I often thought there was too much time there. That the place was sick with it.’
Aug 12, 2025 02:38PM Add a comment
The Loney

Colette Webber
Colette Webber is on page 85 of 368 of The Loney
‘He thought that collecting certain combinations of stones and shells made him invisible and would often stagger into the Bell and Anchor… his pockets chinking with shingle, and try to drink from other people’s glasses, thinking that they couldn’t see him’
Aug 12, 2025 02:37PM Add a comment
The Loney

Colette Webber
Colette Webber is on page 164 of 254 of Travels with My Aunt
‘I was afraid of burglars and snakes and fires and Jack the Ripper when I should have been afraid of thirty years in a bank and a takeover bid and a premature retirement and the Deuil du Roy Albert’
Jul 25, 2025 06:50AM Add a comment
Travels with My Aunt

Colette Webber
Colette Webber is on page 90 of 254 of Travels with My Aunt
‘I would myself have preferred to visit the Louvre and see the Venus of Melos and the Winged Victory, but my aunt would have none of it. “It’s morbid. I once knew a girl who was chopped up that way between the Gare du Nord and Calais Maritime.”’

Vibe with this woman hard. Between this and The Hearing Trumpet, it’s Tough Old Broad Summer 💗
Jul 13, 2025 05:34AM Add a comment
Travels with My Aunt

Colette Webber
Colette Webber is on page 15 of 199 of The Hearing Trumpet
“I thought you said animals were not allowed in institutions. Forty police dogs are surely animals?”
“Police dogs are not properly speaking animals. Police dogs are perverted animals with no animal mentality. Policemen are not human being so how can police dogs be animals?”

Leonora rly said ACAB
Jun 03, 2025 10:19AM Add a comment
The Hearing Trumpet

Colette Webber
Colette Webber is on page 32 of 142 of The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Also we need to bring back ‘versatile’ to mean ‘bisexual’
Feb 27, 2025 04:59AM Add a comment
The Ballad of Peckham Rye

Colette Webber
Colette Webber is on page 30 of 142 of The Ballad of Peckham Rye
‘Dougal gazed at him like a succubus whose mouth is in its eyes’

Loving this weird lil book so far
Feb 27, 2025 04:57AM Add a comment
The Ballad of Peckham Rye

Colette Webber
Colette Webber is on page 71 of 178 of Giovanni’s Room
‘… that I should be so abruptly, so hideously entangled with a boy; what was strange was that this was but one tiny aspect of the dreadful human tangle, occurring everywhere, without end, forever.’

Go off, Mr Baldwin
Jan 07, 2025 07:07AM Add a comment
Giovanni’s Room

Colette Webber
Colette Webber is on page 55 of 178 of Giovanni’s Room
‘He belonged to this strange city, which did not belong to me’
Jan 07, 2025 06:30AM Add a comment
Giovanni’s Room

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