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“So he went on stringing together these and other absurdities, all in the style of those his books had taught him, imitating their language…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“The first line reads, "As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect...."…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling. His voice…

— Lauren Groff

“A big fly came down also and settled on a leaf close to her face; he had two round brown knobs on his head…

— Winston Graham

“Outside in the barnlot he looked up and the pale moon was directly over him and all-encompassing. It appeared to be lowering itself onto…

— William Gay

“He watched the early light of the new moon glint fretfully on the river, now silver slivers, now darkness, as the night breeze stirred…

— Pauline Gedge

“With the gun which was too big for him, the breech-loader which did not even belong to him but to Major de Spain and…

— William Faulkner

“The birth and death of stars, light reaching his aging eyes after a billion years racing across the near-vacuum, and sometimes he spent the…

— Ross E. Lockhart

“All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each…

— Lois Lowry

“His mind took one of its odd jumps. He opened a clean page in his grimy notebook, and in the twig-divided shade of a…

— Saul Bellow

“The man had no portraits or photographs, but he had slowly surrounded himself with mementos of a fantastic past. Each little item, by the…

— William Ritter

“Of all the things I found puzzling about Sam, this one was always the most puzzling: his sudden, self-deprecating mood swings... Was this what…

— Maggie Stiefvater