"The crew pull down their hats, tug up their collas, pull down their hoods, adopt their balaclavas, ride on out of there." "Pixel Face", Pixel Juice [Jeff Noon]
"It is very natural, then, to connect this transformation with the awakening of his sexual activity that had meanwhile taken place." Sigmund Freud, Case Histories II (1979) p.253
"Studying languages at deree level gives you the ability to communicate and interact confidently with people outside your own community." University of Leeds, school of modern languages and cultures undergraduate courses prospectus.
She unscrewed clenched fingers from her eyes and looked up, while the elder girl glared at him resentfully and said: "We don't want anything. We're going now." - Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (and other stories)
"Harry Houdini was renowned for his escapism but in fact there were many great escapists who preceded him and many who were his contemporaries." - The Vanished Man by Jeffery Deaver pg 220
"The drive to the arena was a routine one, with Eddie getting ever more hyper as game time approached." -The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy pg 300
"Mister Duck's bedroom was a lot like mine had been - clothes in heaps, dog-eared posters on the walls, duvet scrunched up at the bottom of the mattress, battered Matchbox cars on the shelves, marbles and toy soldiers everywhere else." The Beach by Alex Garland pg 225
"Expedited" was spy-speak for "illegal." It mean that an operation was being rushed before anyone could learn about it and block it. Op-Centre: Line of Control by Tom Clancy pg 183
"What a fuckin nondy ****! Hud the daft **** singin that auld song. Distant fuckin Drum, ya ****." The Acid House by Irvine Welsh pg 152
It was still quite early, an autumn morning, and Silverknowes beach and the foreshore were deserted. The tide was going out. Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh pg 165
He looked at Peter and then back at Randi. "All of us have said the insane rivalry, even within our own governments, will destroy us. This one has all the potential for an Armageddon. ..." The Paris Option by Robert Ludlum pg 163
Unfortunately the 25-year stress is just a statistical concept that offers no guarantee about what will happen next year, or next week. The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger pg 122
And one day, as Gwythyr son of Greidol was travelling over a mountain, he could hear weeping and woeful wailing, and it was terrible to hear. - "How Culhwch won Olwen", The Mabinogion.
"Because such elisions are unthinkable, we return obsessively through the reruns and revised scenarios to that still point in time, the caught moment of pigeons flying up from the Texas Book Depository at the report of gunshots and the image of the president's wife reaching for the portion of her husbands scalp blown onto the rear deck of the Lincoln Continental by the fatal head shot." Patrick O'Donnell, "Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia in Contemporary US Narrative" (Duke University Press 2000) p46
"Is it possible that race didn't really matter for these white women and men and that they simply never happened to browse a nonwhite date that interested them?" FREAKONOMICS
"E incredibile, ma i giapponesi son convinti d'avero sulle loro isole tutto;dalla tombo di Cristo alle piramidi, dalla perfetta replica di una cittadina tedesca al castello<<originale>> di Babbo Natale." In Asia - Tiziano Terzani........ page 150 roughly translates as..... It's incredible, but the Japanese are convinced they have everything on their island; from the tomb of Christ to the pyramids, from a perfect replica of a German citizen to the original castle of Santa Claus. Peace, Aidan
