Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“Could anything possibly be more humorous than believing in the depth or in the depravity of the Parisian character?”

— Stendhal

“Who'd ever guess," said Francie, ¨looking at the outside of him, that he was so different inside?¨”

— Betty Smith

“After catching an arrow in the back and passing out in Tom the Feather’s barnyard, Hadrian had woken up on a comfortable bed surrounded…

— Michael J. Sullivan

“Once Charles arrived, Franny would start laughing the way she had when she was twenty-four, and the rest of them could start setting one…

— Emma Straub

“They called him a comical genius and carried his stories carefully home, and they wondered at how the stories spilled out on the way,…

— John Steinbeck

“Each day, as she passed the house whose number she claimed, she looked at it with gratitude and affection. On windy days, when papers…

— Betty Smith

“Obsessive compulsive" Nikolaus mumble in amusement. "I would rather eat a grenade than make a line with two different colors!" Remy responded in a…

— Abigail Roux

“He cleared his throat. “One good thing about the range, Starling, is there’s no politics out there.” “No?” “You were right to secure that…

— Thomas Harris

“He assumed a manner that could be called circular irony. Everything he said, he said in quotes, with an artificial, exaggerated emphasis, and with…

— Stanisław Lem

“With no sums to keep his conscience at bay, the black book loomed large, creeping into his line of sight. He scanned the room…

— Karen Witemeyer

“The bus-driver was whistling, perhaps in anticipation of his wife, who would be a woman with ample breasts, those of a realized maturity. It…

— Marguerite Young

“Then he put in a call for Nicole in Zurich, remembering so many things as he waited, and wishing he had always been as…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald