"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
"Billy Meadows died on the 4th of July, his body found at dawn in a dry ravine by the Miracle Mile section of Wilshire Boulevard."Cala Vox
"Smiley settled in his big armchair by the fire. The rain on the window was like the rumour of an old war..."Cala Vox
"He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders.."Cala Vox
For now I know what happiness feels like. I know what it feels like to be loved and to love in return.Cala Vox
"I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story."Cala Vox
"I lingered a moment looking at her hair and her face, and I turned and went into my house, and I closed the door behind me."Cala Vox
"Might I trouble you then to be ready in half an hour, and we can stop at Marcini’s for a little dinner on the way?"Cala Vox
"Not long ago, there lived in London a young married couple of Dalmatian dogs named Pongo and Misses Pongo."Cala Vox
"When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances then candid ones, they had to smile..."Cala Vox
"As I sit here with one foot on either side of the ledge, looking down from twelve stories above the streets of Boston, I can’t help.."Cala Vox
"If you want to find Cherrytree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads."Cala Vox
"The Japanese slipped forward with his camera, crouched and took two three four pictures in quick succession."Cala Vox
"Only when I am in bed, at dawn, listening to the cars down below in the streets of Paris, my memory betrays me.."Cala Vox
"James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami airport and thought about death."Cala Vox
"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."Cala Vox
"There was the dawning awareness of what the years had taken from him and given to him in the meantime."Cala Vox
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind;Cala Vox
"Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger."Cala Vox5
"Carla heard the car coming before it topped the little rise in the road that around here they called a hill."Cala Vox
"For Siddalee Walker, the need to understand has passed, at least for the moment. All that was left was love and wonder."Cala Vox
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.."Cala Vox
"Later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake."Cala Vox
"True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"Cala Vox
"Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were - Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter."Cala Vox
"Up out of the lampshade, startled by the overhead light, flew a large nocturnal butterfly that began circling the room.."Cala Vox
"In the first weeks of World War II, in the fall of 1939, a six-year-old boy from a large city in Eastern Europe was sent by his parents.."Cala Vox
"The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning.."Cala Vox
"He reached the top of the bank in a single, powerful leap. Hazel followed; and together they slipped away.."Cala Vox
"I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran."Cala Vox
"Before my wife turned vegetarian, I thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way.“Cala Vox
"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."Cala Vox
"On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts."Cala Vox
"All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains."Cala Vox
"We shall never cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.."Cala Vox
"The news that our district was to be visited by a celebrated actor had spread throughout the mountain area of Phoenix of the Sky."Cala Vox
"For a while longer they lie still. Then he whispers, 'Be good,' and then he whispers, 'Forgive me'."Cala Vox
"They called him Ma Ma Gombe, Ma Ma Water, out of respect and not mockery, because they were too wise to mock him."Cala Vox
"Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room.."Cala Vox
"This is not a full circle. It's Life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it."Cala Vox
"We didn't call it Lagos then. The name was Eko, a name that must have belonged to our ancestors.."Cala Vox
"I say that Nhamo's grandmother was a witch because the people of the village said so. And she was."Cala Vox
"As I left China farther and farther behind, I looked out of the window and saw a great universe beyond the plane's silver wing."Cala Vox
"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it..."Cala Vox
"In the spirit of the dead, the living, and the unborn, empty your ears of all impurities, o listener, that you may hear my story."Cala Vox
"Yukiko's diarrhoea persisted through the twenty-sixth, and was a problem on the train to Tokyo."Cala Vox
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."Cala Vox