“A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh.” GirlStarsFleshCrownCurtails Book:Duplex Source: Duplex
“The crickets were rubbing their hind legs together, unrolling that endless band of sound that when combined with the sound of the sycamore trees losing their heads in the heat-thickened breeze could cause even a girl as unsentimental as Mary to feel like she’d just left something behind on the porch stoop she couldn’t bear to live without.” Crickets Book:Duplex Source: Duplex
“The world had edges but you couldn’t see them going, only when you were trying to come back.” WorldEdges Book:Duplex Source: Duplex
“She used to think there would be a greater sense of forward movement in her life, but now it seemed like where a person ended up was going to turn out to have everything to do with where she started.” LifeForward MovementStarted Author:Kathryn Davis
“I’ve heard the band is supposed to be out of this world,” Miss Vicks was saying.” Out Of This World Book:Duplex Source: Duplex
“The Yellow Bear made its first appearance bobbing around on the swollen waters after the Great Flood, following which it disappeared for a while. It tended to show up in periods of unusual stress or upheaval. Even though it looked like it had been made in a factory by unskilled labourers, it had been forged in the Cradle of Civilisation and was said to be the product of a collaboration between humans and machines, lending some credence to the belief that machines had been on the planet long before humans were capable of making them.” MachinesCivilisationUpheavalGreat FloodYellow Bear Book:Duplex Source: Duplex
“It was cool, his finger, being made of titanium, and he used it to stroke her, first on the outside, running it over her pubic hair until she began to moan, and then sliding it inside her.” FingerTitanium Book:Duplex Source: Duplex