The world is full of glamour, especially when it obscures the suffering of the weak.
– Victor LaValle, The Changeling, page 384
Version:
Kindle Edition, 448 pages
Published June 13th 2017 by Spiegel & Grau
Quotes
Apollo read Aleister Crowley’s note to the couple.
Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them.
Thinking of you both.
– Victor LaValle, The Changeling, page 22
Version:
Kindle Edition, 448 pages
Published June 13th 2017 by Spiegel & Grau
Unsupervised reading is a blessing for a certain kind of child.
– Victor LaValle, The Changeling, page 15
Version:
Kindle Edition, 448 pages
Published June 13th 2017 by Spiegel & Grau
Finally I was passed as a novice knife-wielder, and allowed to sit down to dinner, amid general congratulations — with one exception. Murtagh shook his head dubiously.
“I still say the only good weapon for a woman is poison.”
“Perhaps,” replied Dougal, “but it has its deficiencies in face-to-face combat.”
– Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, page 349
Version:
Mass Market Paperback, Starz Tie-In Edition, 850 pages
Published July 1st 2014 by Dell
Always, after she had handled the snake, Dr. Drema washed her hands. Someone at the pet store had said, “You must always wash your hands after handling the snake,” plus one other indelible word: ectoparasite. Convincing!
– Carolyn Cooke, Amor and Psycho, page 30 – 31
Version:
Hardcover, 178 pages
Published August 6th 2013 by Knopf
And don’t let anyone tell you she was banished from the Village of Primm. It wasn’t banishment. It wasn’t! She wasn’t banished. So don’t say banished. Her grass was simply greener on the other side of the fence. That’s all. She wasn’t banished. So don’t say it. Banished. That’s what you don’t want to say.
– Julie Valerie, Holly Banks Full of Angst
Every book is a different hood, a different country, a different world. Reading is how I visit places and people and ideas. And when something rings true or if I still have a question, I outline it with a bright yellow highlighter so that it’s lit up in my mind, like a lightbulb or a torch leading the way to somewhere new.
– Ibi Zoboi, Pride, page 28
Version:
Hardcover, 295 pages
Published September 18th 2018 by Balzer + Bray
You’re doing so good, I told myself. I’m so proud of you. You just have to get through this. You can go home in fifteen minutes.
I wondered how many women had given themselves the same lecture: the girl who’d held her head up at a dance where her date was paying attention to another classmate; the woman who’d been passed by for promotion at her job; the woman who had listened to a dire diagnosis and yet kept her face together.
– Charlaine Harris, Dead and Gone, page 243 – 244
Version:
Mass Market Paperback, Read of the Month, Walmart Edition, 310 pages
Published April 2010 by Ace
excuse me while i gag…
The look in his eyes touched the woman inside me, awakening her. . . .
– Betrayed (House of Night, book 2), P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
“We each carry a measure of grace, and we each carry a measure of evil. There is never enough grace to banish the evil, and there is never enough evil to smother the grace.”
– Jay Lake, Green, page 246
Version:
Paperback, 368 pages
Published February 15th 2011 by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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