“A whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glades, no embroidered feet on the green sward; the cream and dappled unicorns had fled...”
- A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

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“All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them.”
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

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“I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction; there is only narrative.”
- The Most of Nora Ephron by Nora Ephron

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“At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.”
- The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan

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"In the violet sky of the evening ... little silvery fighter planes made trials and loops."
- The Smell of Hay by Giorgio Bassani

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"Imagine a train hurtling towards you at full speed...now double it."
- Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer by Russell Hoban

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“Nothing exceeds the license occasionally taken by the imagination of very rigid people.”
- The Europeans by Henry James

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“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E Schwab

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"...while she might play at disappearing into Venice, her vanishing act could never truly be complete. There would always be someone who knew her..."
- The Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan

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“Hope,’ he said. ‘Damn thing never leaves you alone.”
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

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“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

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"Mrs Lindsay looked foolish; but Joan was really frightened. She had, for the first time in her life, seen hatred on her brother's face."
- All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood

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“It is the silence of a whale that is more then half its undoing; I said that what impressed me most about animals was their dignity in dying…”
- The Hunter and the Whale by Laurens van der Post

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“Paul chafed at this second coming out, at being in again at all, and so suddenly. Is it endless? he thought, like Russian nesting dolls, with no tiny solid center?”
- Paul Tales the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

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"He became so gloomy that she asked him, at last, if he was worried about anything. He assured her, instantly, that he was the happiest man in the world."
- The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy

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“Death was an executioner, lopping a flower before it bloomed.”
- The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier

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“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

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“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
- Armadale by Wilkie Collins

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“The disaster of being old was in not feeling safe to venture anywhere, of seeing freedom put out of reach.”
- Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

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“In nature, he thinks, there is no such thing as ugliness. It's like he tried to tell Margaret in the car, beauty belongs to god, and ugliness to human beings.”
- Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

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