The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler:

• "I think they go their separate and slightly divergent roads to perdition"
• "Neither of them has any more moral sense than a cat" HAHA
• "We're his blood. That's the hell of it....I don't want him to die despising his own blood. It was always wild blood, but it wasn't always rotten blood."
• "What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now"

Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter:

• "Writing, she believed, retained 'a singular moral function - that of provoking unease'"
• 'Why don;t you cry when you're hurt?"/"I only cry out of sentiment"
• "You're an odd one, aren't you. You can't have fitted in"
• "My poor boy, my poor boy's got a chronic gift for unhappiness"
• "Who do you see when you see me?"/"The map of a country in which I only exist by virtue of the extravagance of my metaphors"/"Now you're being too sophisticated. And, besides, what metaphors do we have in common?"
• "Everywhere I go, I'm doomed to be nothing but an exhibit" said Jewel (so poignant)
• (find out the allusion to Lilith and what it means)
• "But I think that, in the long run, I shall be forced to trust appearances. When I was a little girl, we played at heroes and villains but now I don't know which is which any more, nor who is who, and what can I trust if not appearances?"

Jeanette Winterson the essential guide by Vintage Living Texts:

• "extreme swervings back and forth between a banal everyday and a surreal vision, the inset fairy stories that increasingly take over the 'real' story, and the conviction of a prose that is poetic in its intensity"
• "Books are always cleverer than their authors. They always contain more than the writer intended to put into them - at least they should - otherwise they become rather formulaic" JW