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![Frederick Forsyth](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1595729238i/36714._UY200_CR53,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.”
― The Day of the Jackal
― The Day of the Jackal
![R.L. LaFevers](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1254028663i/180392._UX200_CR0,6,200,200_.jpg)
“I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.”
― Grave Mercy
― Grave Mercy
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.”
― The 5-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classics: Great Books For The Short Attention Span
― The 5-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classics: Great Books For The Short Attention Span
![Virginia Woolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1419596619i/6765._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters. ”
― Orlando
― Orlando
![Edwin A. Abbott](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1291869697i/3093075._CR0,48,200,200_.jpg)
“I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.”
― Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
― Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
![Stephen King](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1362814142i/3389._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
![José Saramago](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1497455560i/1285555._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.”
― The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
― The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
![Christoph Marzi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1298754209i/624389._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“Die Welt ist gierig, und manchmal verschwinden Menschen in ihrem Schlund, ohne jemals wieder gesehen zu werden.”
― Lycidas
― Lycidas
“I know what you want to hear, doctor, but I'm sorry, you're not going to pry some sordid confession out of me.”
― Frida
― Frida
![Christoph Marzi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1298754209i/624389._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“Die meisten Lügen sind wahr und spinnen sich von ganz allein, kaum jemand kannte diese Wahrheit besser als Colin Darcy. Wenn man erst einmal der Melodie der Worte zu lauschen beginnt, dann pfeift man sie bald selbst. Und wenn Lügen wie kunstvolle Lieder sind, dann gehörte Helen Darcy, Colins Mutter, zu jenem seltenen Menschenschlag, der allzeit eine beschwingte Melodie auf den Lippen trägt.”
― Fabula
― Fabula
![Robertson Davies](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1225671081i/23129._CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.”
― Fifth Business
― Fifth Business
![Jennifer Weiner](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1635872515i/9212._UY200_CR46,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall.”
― In Her Shoes
― In Her Shoes
![Mary Doria Russell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1424915707i/4007._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“On December 7, 2059, Emilio Sandoz was released from the isolation ward of Salvator Mundi Hospital in the middle of the night and transported in a bread van to the Jesuit residence at Number 5 Borgo Santo Spirito, a few minutes' walk across St. Peter's Square from the Vatican.”
― The Sparrow
― The Sparrow
![Diana Abu-Jaber](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1205264737i/6330._UY200_CR32,0,200,200_.jpg)
“When Matussem Ramoud opened his eyes each morning, his wife would still not be there. ”
― Arabian Jazz
― Arabian Jazz
![Oscar Hijuelos](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1305787493i/7457._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“The house in which the fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'brien lived, radiated femininity.”
― The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
― The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
![Gabriel García Márquez](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1588856705i/13450._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.”
― The General in His Labyrinth
― The General in His Labyrinth
![Augusten Burroughs](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1459810857i/3058._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“It's not that I was an outright nitwit of a child.”
― You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
― You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
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