"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer.."Cala Vox
"The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk in a Rolls Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers."Cala Vox
"Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater."Cala Vox
"Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper."Cala Vox
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."Cala Vox
"In the deep glens where they lived, all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."Cala Vox
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."Cala Vox
"The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth.."Cala Vox
"He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was."Cala Vox
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.“Cala Vox
"The eyes and faces all turned themselves towards me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room."Cala Vox
"All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for.."Cala Vox
"Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right.."Cala Vox
"In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black coats, and they ride on broomsticks."Cala Vox
"In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains."Cala Vox
„In the morning it was morning and I was still alive. Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did.“Cala Vox
"The sun on the altar in the west window lay in the shape of a cross, even as the Phrygians had known it would."Cala Vox
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."Cala Vox
"But I don’t think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt."Cala Vox
"In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist.."Cala Vox
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."Cala Vox
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."Cala Vox
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.Cala Vox
"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."Cala Vox
"It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns."Cala Vox
"This is the story of a man named Eddie, and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun."Cala Vox
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."Cala Vox
"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both."Cala Vox
"The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon."Cala Vox
I was born twice- first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960..Cala Vox
"The wake itself remains, etched out across the water’s surface; then it fades as well, although no one is there to see it go."Cala Vox
"And thus, almost in the very footsteps of the shadow of Norgate and Bonney, my house was turned into a church."Cala Vox