"Let me just slow this down a little bit here"

"Let me just slow this down a little bit here" - fourteen threadless needles by Vito Pasquale

"All poems cause side effects"

"All poems cause side effects" - fourteen threadless needles by Vito Pasquale

"It was nothing I had ever seen before"

"It was nothing I had ever seen before" - Citizen Conn by Michael Chabon

"Its walls had been painted often enough"

"Its walls had been painted often enough" - Citizen Conn by Michael Chabon

"Fortunately we live in a place where things like this are so scandalous people continue to talk about them"

"Fortunately we live in a place where things like this are so scandalous people continue to talk about them" - The Merry Misogynist by Colin Cotterill

"They tell us what they want us to know, and that's little enough"

"They tell us what they want us to know, and that's little enough" - A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

"I've never had a friend before"

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

"He had run out of words"

"He had run out of words" - A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

"How did it get so easy to be anonymous?"

"How did it get so easy to be anonymous?" - An Anonymous Island by Yi Mun-Yol

"He wanted to live a normal life like everybody else"

"He wanted to live a normal life like everybody else" - Town of Cats by Haruki Murakami

"She hoped he'd come back to see her someday"

"She hoped he'd come back to see her someday" - Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill

"You'll understand when you meet him some time"

"You'll understand when you meet him some time" - Gabriel's Gift by Hanif Kureishi

"So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance"

"So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance" - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie



"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

"I do think I carried things off rather well"

"I do think I carried things off rather well" - This Body of Death by Elizabeth George

"There was no one around to share the joke with"

"There was no one around to share the joke with" - Reverting to a Wild State by Justin Torres

"Someone might be listening"

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

"It's because she's never seen anyone like you"

"It's because she's never seen anyone like you" - Aphrodisiac by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

"People worried about the usual small things, which to them were big things"

"People worried about the usual small things, which to them were big things" - Homage to Hemingway by Julian Barnes

"He doubted he would ever write anything of lasting value"

"He doubted he would ever write anything of lasting value" - Homage to Hemingway by Julian Barnes