"Loneliness is a mask"

"Loneliness is a mask" - fourteen threadless needles by Vito Pasquale

"The orange light looks like a gasoline fire"

"The orange light looks like a gasoline fire" - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

"Let's go someplace else"

"Let's go someplace else" - Assimilation by Sherman Alexie

"How much is real and how much is imagined?"

"How much is real and how much is imagined?" - This Body of Death by Elizabeth George



"So many people stayed in bed on cloudy days"

"So many people stayed in bed on cloudy days" - Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill

"Even catalog clothing fit him well, a girlfriend had once commented"

"Even catalog clothing fit him well, a girlfriend had once commented" - Zero Day by Mark Russinovich

"What luck to know a good and honest man"

"What luck to know a good and honest man" - Costello by Jim Gavin

"A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody"

"A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody" - Boys Town by Jim Shepard

"She had been incapable of acting differently"

"She had been incapable of acting differently" - The Train of Their Departure by David Bezmozgis

"In spite of the raincoat he was soaked"

"In spite of the raincoat he was soaked" - Cuckoo in the Nest by Michelle Magorian

"This afternoon I came here and buried fifty books below the water"

"This afternoon I came here and buried fifty books below the water" - Gavin Highly by Janet Frame

"Gone fishing"

"I will be back around March 22nd" - Gone Fishing by Martina ;-)

"Still and all, there's no two men the same"

"Still and all, there's no two men the same" - Foster by Claire Keegan

"As I glance downriver I see a flotilla of watermen's boats approaching"

"As I glance downriver I see a flotilla of watermen's boats approaching" - The System of the World by Neal Stephenson

"But they were off on a river cruise today"

"But they were off on a river cruise today" - The System of the World by Neal Stephenson

"For some reason, the background seems to have gone silent"

"For some reason, the background seems to have gone silent" - Indianapolis (Highway 74) by Sam Shepard

"They don't give you a manual"

"They don't give you a manual" - The Valetudinarian by Joshua Ferris

"We are warm, slow, and sensual guys"

"We are warm, slow, and sensual guys" - In the South by Salman Rushdie

"A man with a phone clamped between his ear and his shoulder"

""A man with a phone clamped between his ear and his shoulder" - Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

"There was perfect silence from the other men"

"There was perfect silence from the other men" - Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson