Duel Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“The girl is nine and narrow-faced like a sleek hunting dog. Electra, the eldest of Sevro’s three daughters, is taller than my son and…

— Pierce Brown

“We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness.…

— William Shakespeare

“Tonight the music, Anita's and Ruth's squeals, the joy shimmering in the light from the orange-fringed lamp, the leg of lamb, all of it…

— Fanny Britt

“Why don't you go on, Mother dear?' he asked. 'It's such nonsense!' said his mother. 'I believe it would go on for ever.' 'That's…

— George MacDonald

“The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.”

— Jules Verne

“The game was sinful, But she was more playful. She needs to be taught, With every drop of the wax dot. With my every…

— Delicious David

“And me all the while having to pee—coughing into the mike when my throat was tired and raw—eyes stinging and lips and chin crumpling…

— Katherine Dunn

“Somethin in me has been set free from a cage I never knew was there. It flies with Yellachile at night, and we go…

— Robert McCammon

“The reality of boy-girl life gets harsh, but in my fantasy, the music keeps them together.”

— Rob Sheffield

“As a child she had run wild, a brown-eyed and tousled-hair creature, lanky limbs scratched and bruised, among the fishing boats, the shanties and…

— Georgina Anne Taylor

“Courtiers were supposed to sound musical when they spoke, their laughter like a harp chord and their sneezes like notes on a flute,”

— Sarah Beth Durst

“I thought of myself, in those days, as someone in disguise—beneath the obedient son, beneath the straight-A student, the agreeable well-brought-up boy with his…

— Steven Millhauser