“THE BOY WHO LIVED Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal,… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together.” — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.” — Rae Hachton Copy Share Image
“This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“There is a delicate-looking plant native to North America called bleeding heart.” — Josh Aterovis Copy Share Image
“It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.” — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“So I'm on my way to work and I stop to watch a pigeon fight a rat in the snow, and some… — Josh Bazell Copy Share Image
“Nobody knew me at Buckton. Clem had chosen the town because of that; and besides, even if I had wimp out, there… — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of people in our town. The stupid and the stuck." ” — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the movies. Fucking… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“Hi. I'm here to enlist. You can't. You aren't human. You see, little fella, we don't do sociological stuff like "interspeciated workplaces."… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
“I knocked at a second-floor flat in a dreary house, one of two hundred in a dreary Catford street.” — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
“On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed… — Mark Zero Copy Share Image
“I never sleep. Like the dolphin and the spiny anteater, I don't experience REM. Unlike the dreamless mammals, I'm a construct. I… — Lyda Morehouse Copy Share Image
“I don't like killing, but I'm good at it. Murder isn't so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my… — Graeme Shimmin Copy Share Image
“All day, the colours had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
