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“Solitude was corrupting me. I needed company and care. My heart was a hysterical, unreliable organ.”

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Book:Lolita

Source: Lolita

“If you're not sharp and you're not listening, I'll most likely carry you somewhere you didn't want to go.”

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Author:Marlon James

“Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get.”

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Book:Transition

Source: Transition

“I had done a deed—what was it?”

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Book:Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Source: Tales of Mystery and Imagination

“We commonly do not remember that it is … always the first person that is speaking.”

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Book:Walden or, Life in the Woods

Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods

“People always talk about unreliable narrators and, to tell you the truth, I think that’s a redundant term. I think ‘narrator’ inheres unreliability, because even if we don’t mean to lie, we’re still selecting this event instead of that event to talk about, and that’s a form of omission. Anyone who narrates a story, or narrates anything, is always giving you their version, and their version always has a slant to it.”

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Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“Christine gave Louise a knowing look, but Louise did not know what the knowing in the look was meant to mean.”

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Book:The Book of Reasonable Women

Source: The Book of Reasonable Women