"Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books."

i've started dogearing the books i read, and writing down my favorite lines. these are some of the bits i liked most...

Her clear face combined an air of innocence with something as saucy and irreverent as a hot cross bun. (19)

Although the morning was still new, the heat had settled for the day, a humid breathless heat that seeped from the green walls, from the pale mists. (11)

When Wolfie had recovered from his shock, from his fatigue and hangover as well as from the experience of the morning, he would deeply resent what had been done to him and especially the careless way in which Moon had told him that he could keep his knife, Eventually he would doubt that he had ever seriously intended to kill Moon, and that Moon had known this all along and had humiliated him anyway. (89)

The passage through the soil had cleaned him of his clothes, and he was naked. (125)

First, he had gone around for many moons chanting incantations and clutching aphrodisiac charms and talismans of love, and to no avail. Second, he had killed a tapir and dumped the entire animal at Pindi’s feet. Finally, he had seized her up and bore her off into the weeds to work his way with her, whereupon, out of indifference, she permitted him to marry her. (189)