Slings and arrows Quote by Bill Buford

“I knew that the swallower was just a little knot of matter, squashed so tight that even its own light couldn’t break free of…

— Alastair Reynolds

“...he had known that the endless space below him that stretched out like a maw was exactly that: a mouth the size of the…

— China Miéville

“What happened is, we grew lonely living among the things, so we gave the clock a face, the chair a back, the table four…

— Lisel Mueller

“These kissed life on the mouth—and were eaten.”

— A. A. Attanasio

“Well, the primitive part of my brain liked it and before the more advanced portions could take a stand, it had too much momentum…

— Robert Bruce Stewart

“It was an arms crushing me to his body, heads slanting, mouths opened, tongues invading, toes curling, knees weakening, bones dissolving, deep, wet, hungry,…

— Kristen Ashley

“On these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before the next long starvation.…

— Margaret Atwood

“and the chewing and swallowing imbue me with an unadulterated sense of donkey delight.”

— Mo Yan

“...as he finally sheds his body's suit, ------ finds his gut and throat again and newly whole, clean and unimpeded, free, catapulted home over…

— David Foster Wallace

“In the old days he had clutched life with such violence that the juice of it ran out between his fingers and was lost,…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The idea of a slow approach to the luxury of leisure drove him wild. He was, of course, progressing toward it, but, like a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald