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The Complaint
Judy Budnitz
‘The first few apartments Claude inspects have the air of people who haven't budged in years.’
The Speed of Sperm
Jeffrey Eugenides
‘I was born twice: once, as a baby girl, at 4.53 a.m. on a remarkably unpolluted Detroit day in 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in the offices of our family physician, Dr Arnold Philobosian, in 1976.’
Dragons
Julian Barnes
‘Everything bad came from the north. Whatever else they believed, the whole town, both parts of it, knew that.’
The Brass Bar
Louis de Bernières
‘In the late seventies I was desperately attempting to avoid having a career by doing what I supposed were 'real' jobs.‘
Soon and in Our Days
Naomi Alderman
‘It is not often, even in Hendon, that one witnesses a miracle.’
Author, Author
Martin Amis
‘Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing.’
The Miracle at Ballinspittle
T. Coraghessan Boyle
‘This statue, alone among all the myriad three-foot-high snotgreen likenesses of the Virgin cast in plaster by Finbarr Finnegan & Sons, Cork City, was seen one grim March afternoon some years back to move its limbs ever so slightly, as if seized suddenly by the need of a good sinew-cracking stretch.’
Here Is What You Do
Chris Dennis
‘It’s like there’s a piece of candy hidden deep inside you and everyone is trying to find the easiest way to get it out.’
Man Crossing Bridges
Ronaldo Correia de Brito
‘He prefers the battles of the bed, but his wife insists on his keeping to a severe containment.’
