Chance Quote by David Mitchell

“Let me just say that I now know what it feels like to be the last one to show up a party. There is…

— Julie Rainey

“They had all of the pieces, and it just took one curious mind to put it all together.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“The thoughts just before the event are like the fortune in the cookie. The fortune's as random as the thought.”

— Adam Ross

“Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“He couldn't concentrate on anything while her incredible bottom led him up those stairs like the Pied Piper of tempting asses.”

— Nina Bangs

“Perhaps there is no providence, no fate, no grand plan, she thinks now. Perhaps we dig our own traps and lie down in them.”

— Emma Donoghue

“He plunges into the middle of them and it is a frightening thing. He must be fierce and wicked and brave all at the…

— Nancy E. Turner

“He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.”

— Edith Pargeter

“Something at the back of his mind whispered that this assignment would be like nothing he had encountered before.”

— Nicole Sager

“...and one of those neat spiral stairways in the far corner-I wonder where it leads. Spiral staircases always seem to me like they must…

— Helen Phillips

“He was forever dwelling on his failures. He held them up to the light and examined them in minute detail, like necklaces that had…

— Elliott Holt

“But at any rate, one thing was certain. The conspiracy that he had dreamed of did exist, and he had reached the outer edges…

— George Orwell