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“Suddenly, in the here and now, everything depended on the houbara bustard.”

— Charles McCarry

“It was a very inexact apocalypse.”

— China Miéville

“I drove through the suburbs, where all the houses looked identical, one variation of another of the same thing. I said to myself, I’d…

— Rawi Hage

“We headed toward the creepy old slaughterhouse full of dangerous beings. Which... pretty much tells you what kind of day I was having, right…

— Jim Butcher

“I was fucked and I knew it. I had stupidly wandered into some epic rape palace run by meth-addicted hobos and bald men with…

— Karina Halle

“They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Stupid dire warnings of imminent doom. They always put me in a bad mood.”

— Clinton Boomer

“Like a serial killer, the house blended in. It suited its place and its place suited it.”

— Barry Lyga

“I guess the beautiful disaster turned into a beautiful wedding.”

— Jamie McGuire

“More and more clearly as the scones disappeared into his interior he saw that what the sensible man wanted was a wife and a…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil. The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the government. No…

— Victor Hugo

“Everyone these days was defensive about their lives. Everyone had settled.”

— Lorrie Moore