No Life for a Lady – Hannah Dolby
“It was hot, the night my mother disappeared. It was a Saturday, and she had been going out. I had wanted to go out with her, because I…”
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
“I have just returned from a visit to my landlord – the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful…”
The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
“In a distant and secondhand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part…”
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but…”
Secrets of Camp Whatever Vol.1 – Chris Grine
“Why can’t I go to summer camp, too? It’s not fair Willow gets to go have fun and I don’t.”
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
“The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling…”
Matilda – Roald Dahl
“It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine…”
The Beautiful and the Damned – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.”
Live and Let Die – Ian Fleming
“There are moments of great luxury in the life of a secret agent. There are assignments on which he is required to act the part of a very…”