“Our hero was not one of those Dominican cats everybody’s always going on about—he wasn’t no home-runner hitter or fly bachetero, not a playboy with a million hots on his jock.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“One day, I was already old, in the entrance of a public place a man came up to me.”— Marguerite Duras, amazon.com
“In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.”— Téa Obreht, amazon.com
“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we understood the gravity of our situation.”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.”— Paul Auster, amazon.com
“Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Oh pussycat, I’m so glad to hear your voice,’ the girl’s mother said on the telephone.”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com