At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring.

“The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head.”

— James Carlos Blake

“This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed.”

— Melina Marchetta

“I might be the villain of this story.”

— Rebecca Makkai

“A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories.”

— Aldous Huxley

“At last, the luminous match was struck and the day was lit.”

— Dorit Rabinyan

“There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it…

— Geoff Ryman

“See the child.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“I don't know if I killed my dad or not.”

— Jeanne Willis

“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.”

— Robertson Davies

“Ilium, New York, is divided into three parts.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It's not that I was an outright nitwit of a child.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he…

— Molly Harper

“It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small northern part of a Midwest state. There wasn't…

— Ray Bradbury

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Everyone thinks it was because of the snow. And in a way, I suppose that’s true.”

— Anonymous