Jess Liquet

“had two reasons. Ned was by himself in this world, except for me, and I didn’t want no man and no children spiting him just because he was an orphan. The other reason I never looked at a man, I was barren. An old woman on the place had told me that. I went to her one day and told her how my body act and didn’t act. After we had sat down and talked a while, she said one word: “Barren.” I went to a doctor and he told me the same thing: “You barren, all right.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

“I don’t like the news on the radio. It’s always read by girls of some sort who pronounce the place names incomprehensibly. What’s more, one in three of them has a slight speech defect, as though such ones are selected deliberately.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“America had left reality behind and entered the comic-book universe.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Golden House

“He was evidently a most captivating good-time Charlie, quick with his dick and quicker to split.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle