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‘What you sayin’,’ Michael said, and Damian replied also with a question, ‘What’s up,’ neither of which were answered strictly and thus do not require question marks.
Diana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them


I see this girl, Vanden, for a while, who paints my futon frame black and who stopped seeing me because she said she saw “a spider the size of Norman Mailer” in my bathroom. I didn’t ask her who Norman Mailer was, and I didn’t ask her to come back.
Bret Easton Ellis • The Rules of Attraction
I had to do the harder English, which was a time suck, reading books. Some of them though, I finished without meaning to. That Holden guy held my interest. Hating school, going to the city to chase whores and watch rich people’s nonsense, and then you come to find out, all he wants in his heart is to stand at the edge of a field catching little boy
... See moreBarbara Kingsolver • Demon Copperhead: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Lady Duff Twysden, a character right out of a very good English novel who had lost her way. Her look was original, her chic was original, and God knows her speech and her capacity for drink were all original.