Monday 1 August 2011

Another weekend of reading



STARTED EARLY, TOOK MY DOG
Copyright © Kate Atkinson 2010

page 35: Tracy caught sight of herself in the plate glass of Ryman’s, saw the wild-eyed look of a woman falling over the edge.

page 93: The bridesmaids’ shoes were burnt orange too, their pointy feet poking out from beneath jaundiced dresses that looked like the sunset at the end of the world. 

page 140: ... there was just a silence so deep and dark it was like the sounds of a different dimension rather than the absence of noise.

page 370: Some women were destined for widowhood, marriage was just an obstacle in their way.

SUN DOG
Copyright © Monique Roffey 2002

page 360: Olivia stayed very still for a moment, as though listening to something very quiet. Then her face broke, her mouth collapsed like the lip of an unset clay jug. It poured forth sorrow.
She keened forward.
Quietly, she began to sob.

pge 373: His lips left a trail of iridescent dust on her hips, her abdomen. His eyelids were the palest iris mauve. She kissed them. He kissed her back, fully, slowly. In each of their mouths was the end of a rainbow.

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