"I've never had a friend before"

"I've never had a friend before" - A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

"There can never be more between us than there is just now"

"There can never be more between us than there is just now" - This Body of Death by Elizabeth George

"Someone might be listening"

"Someone might be listening" - Aphrodisiac by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

"You don't believe such women exist?"

"You don't believe such women exist?" - Homage to Hemingway by Julian Barnes

"You guys continue to amaze"

"You guys continue to amaze" - Home by George Saunders

"It always makes me nervous when a woman intervenes"

"It always makes me nervous when a woman intervenes" - The Avignon Quintet by Lawrence Durrell

"He had, especially in the evening, these sudden thunderclaps of fear"

"He had, especially in the evening, these sudden thunderclaps of fear" - Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

"It was dawn by the time the tiger left the city"

"It was dawn by the time the tiger left the city" - The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

"I have met the king of the fishes and lived in the house of a woman"

"I have met the king of the fishes and lived in the house of a woman" - The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie