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Anthony Burgess
“There's the mackerel of the cornflake for you, you dirty reader of filth and nastiness.”
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

Maureen Johnson
“My moose,” she said in a low voice. “I finally got it. The universe paid me in moose.”
Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall

Sōsuke Natsukawa
“Reading a book is a lot like climbing a mountain.” “What do you mean?” His curiosity piqued, Rintaro had finally looked up from his book. His grandfather wafted his teacup slowly under his nose as if savoring the aroma of the tea. “Reading isn’t only for pleasure or entertainment. Sometimes you need to examine the same lines deeply, read the same sentences over again. Sometimes you sit there, head in hands, only progressing at a painstakingly slow pace. And the result of all this hard work and careful study is that suddenly you’re there and your field of vision expands. It’s like finding a great view at the end of a long climbing trail.”
Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

Wilkie Collins
“Oh, my young friends and fellow sinners! beware of presuming to exercise your poor carnal reason. Oh, be morally tidy! Let your faith be as your stockings, and your stockings as your faith. Both ever spotless, and both ready to put on at a moment's notice!”
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

Joseph Boyden
“Your grandfather was a hero in a war, girls. He wasn't a bad man or a weak man. Maybe he was too old to have a second family, a second wife and your mother and me, so many years after he lost his first. Maybe he was too old to fight anymore, and that's why he let me be taken away. I've thought about this for years and years. All I know is there are no heroes in this world. Not really. Just men and women who become old and tired and lose the strength to fight for what they love any longer.”
Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce
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