"I sometimes wonder what was disappeared first--- among all the things that have vanished from the
island."
"Victor readjusted the shovels on his shoulder and stepped gingerly over an old, half-sunken grave."
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
"When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist."
"I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time."
"Every city is a ghost."
"The circus arrives without warning."
"When Salma peers into her daughter's coffee cup, she knows instantly she must lie."
"I am surrounded by forgotten women."
"In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit."
"Lately, the line between real life and movies has begun to blur."
"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father
gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."