JEAN SCIBERRAS > JEAN SCIBERRAS's Quotes

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I don’t like the news on the radio. It’s always read by girls of some sort who pronounce the place names incomprehensibly. What’s more, one in three of them has a slight speech defect, as though such ones are selected deliberately.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“He wanted me to play Scrabble with him, and kiss him as if I meant it. This is one of the most bizzarre things that’s happened to me, ever. Context is all.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“The arrival of the tray, carried up the stairs as if for an invalid. An invalid, one who has been invalidated. No valid passport. No exit.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“With that man you wanted it to work, to work out. Working out was also something you did to keep your body in shape, for the man. If you worked out enough, maybe the man would too. Maybe you would be able to work it out together, as if the two”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“And those that there are tend to be so deep in the closet you could mistake them for a clothes hanger.”
― Val McDermid, The Mermaids Singing

“He had laid out a highly plausible scenario that included a motive, a weapon, opportunity, and perhaps most important, a seemingly false alibi that would cause the jurors to immediately question what Sloane was about to stand and tell them.”
― Robert Dugoni, Murder One