Favorite Sentence: Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air

"And the enviable peace of which he speaks eludes me." (page 353)

Favorite Sentence: Joan Didion's Blue Nights

"I could give the name of whichever close friend in New York comes first to mind, but the close friend in New York who comes first to mind is actually, on reflection, not even in New York, out of town, out of the country, away, certainly unreachable in the best case, possibly unwilling in the worst." (page 186)

Favorite Sentence: M. Ageyev's Novel With Cocaine

"My experience in matters of love seemed to have convinced me that no one could talk eloquently of love unless his love was only a memory, that no one could talk persuasively of love unless his sensuality was aroused, and no one whose heart was actually in the throes of love could say a word." (page 93)