“And androids,” Eldon Rosen added. “Although naturally the public isn’t told that; they’re not supposed to know that androids are on Earth, in our midst.”
- Dick, P. (1968). Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Don’t forget to wish for something.”
- Barker, C. (1992). The Thief of Always.
“He means Leatherface,” I say, teeth tightly clenched. “Leatherface. He was part of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
- Ellis, B. E. (1991). American Psycho.
“He wrinkled up his nose like a pig’s and squealed; grunted and squealed. Jonny and Micke laughed.”
- Lindqvist, J. A. (2004). Let the Right One In.
“Real life isn’t a series of interconnected events occurring one after another - like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.”
- Crichton, M. (1990). Jurassic Park.
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
- Darwin, C. (1859). On the Origin of Species.
“The reader may please to observe, that, in the last article of the recovery of my liberty, the emperor stipulates to allow me a quantity of meat and drink sufficient for the support of 1724 Lilliputians.”
- Swift, J. (1726). Gulliver’s Travels.
“So it goes.”
- Vonnegut, K. (1969). Slaughterhouse 5.
“For, the footsteps had become to their minds as the footsteps of a people, tumultuous under a red flag and with their country declared in danger, changed into wild beasts, by terrible enchantment long persisted in”.
- Dickens, Ch. (1859). A Tale Of Two Cities.
“A cluster of stars palely glowed above us, between the silhouettes of long thin leaves; that vibrant sky seemed as naked as she was under her light frock.”
- Nabakov, V. (1955). Lolita.
