- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- "Until it was nothing more than a gray paper moon, hanging in the sky."
- Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- "Miss Honey was still hugging the tiny girl in her arms and neither of them said a word as they stood there watching the big black car tearing round the corner at the end of the road and disappearing for ever in the distance."
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- "And Carlson said, "Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?"
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- "So in America when then sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dead Moriarty, I even think of old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dead Moriarty."
- Birds in Fall by Brad Kessler
- " Any moment now: she'd fly into his vision. "
- An Invisible Flower by Yoko Ono
- Frida: Viva La Vida!/Long Live Life! by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
- "Life goes by, and sets paths, which are not traveled in vain."
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- "It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognised who it was."
- The View from Garden City by Carolyn Baugh
- "But it is somehow more stable under the weight we bear."
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
- "Not in this day and age."
- Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
- The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
- "Then she turned off the light, and left the kitchen."
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- "Then she dried her hands and decided to take a nap before starting the evening meal."
may 12 2014 ∞
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