Barbara

“During the night, her body had come to a fine agreement with the blanket, sheets, and mattress; they’d all got on really well and found the perfect balance of natural blood-circulation and cost wrapped-upness.”
― Michel Faber, D: A Tale of Two Worlds

“My current life, I realized, was constructed around an absence; for all its richness I still felt as if the floors might give way, as if its core were only a covering of leaves, and I would slip through, falling endlessly, never to get my footing.”
― Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

“A flash of inspiration struck him with all the force and brilliance that ideas have when they’re traveling through beer.”
― Terry Pratchett

“That’s where he quickly settled, the vector of his rage, his hurt, pointed directly back at himself.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!