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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThis is a story a young girl gathers in a car during the early hours of the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHe was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea<\/em><\/p>\n “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.”<\/p>\n \u2014Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita<\/em><\/p>\n “Shadow had done three years in prison.”<\/p>\n \u2014Neil Gaiman, American Gods<\/em><\/p>\n “First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl name Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey.”<\/p>\n \u2014Tim O’Brien, The Thing They Carried<\/em><\/p>\n “You’ll probably think I’m making a lot of this up just to make me sound better than I really am or smarter or even luckier but I’m not.”<\/p>\n \u2014Russell Banks, Rule of the Bone<\/em><\/p>\n “I’m pretty much fucked.”<\/p>\n \u2014Andy Weir, The Martian<\/em><\/p>\n “When Lauren was a small girl, she would stand in the Kansan fields and call the cats.”<\/p>\n \u2014Steve Erickson, Days Between Stations<\/em><\/p>\n “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you\u2019ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don\u2019t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”<\/p>\n \u2014J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye<\/em><\/p>\n Last, but not least\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cFor the most wild yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat<\/em><\/p>\n\n