I can't bear literary snobbery.

Time seemed to drag with dreamlike slowness, like a knife through cold honey, and the room took on a surreal golden shee — Sara Stark, Couillon

Despite their macabre imaginations, they don't believe the things they say, all those things about magic and fantômes. B — Sara Stark, Couillon

Law should be a literary profession,' RGB says, 'and the best legal practioners regard law as an art as well as a craft. — Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When I was eight years old, I was abducted from a fast food restaurant by a man who took me, in all likelihood, because — Michael Fiegel, Blackbird

To the jaded eye, all vampires seem alike, but they are wonderful in their versatility. Some come to life in moonlight, — Nina Auerbach

The ultimate act of heroism shouldn’t be death. You’re always saying you want to give Baz the stories he deserves... So — Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

Literary Agent: “I meant manuscript wise.”Tina: “Ohh. Um, yes. I’ve brought a few with me, just some rough drafts. (shuf — Christina Engela, Innocent Minds

A garden is never finished. In that sense it is like the human world and all human undertakings. — Karel Čapek, The Gardener's Year

I was an unwilling passenger leaving the Big Country. I would miss the mountains and the waterfalls,the treks on broad h — Suzy Davies, Johari's Window

$The double consequence of artifice--to project sentience out onto the made world and in turn to make sentience itself into a complex living artifact--is thus fractured, neatly fractured, into two sepa — Elaine Scarry The Body in Pain$

Mankind is immortalin the comic perspective not by virtue of man's subjugation of naturebut by virtue of man's subjectio — Rose A. Zimbardo

We sat still, our breathing loud and rhythmic, its music melancholy, a traditional song of sorrow. — Margot McCuaig, The Birds That Never Flew

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