Citerat från veckans läsning

"'livet är precis som ett skämt', förklarade Petrina högtidligt. 'Det börjar dåligt och slutar dåligt. I mitten är det roligt.'"
ur Satantango av László Krasznahorkai, övers. Daniel Gustafsson Pech

"'Useless, that's what you are,' the girl said. 'Why I could make a man every bit as good as you out of two rhymes and a handful of moonshine.'
  'I'd like to see you try,' said the man.
  So the girl reached up to where the bright silver moon had just risen above the hills and she drew together a handful of moonshine. Then she twisted together two rhymes to run right through it and let it go. There stood a man, in a jacket as violet as the twilight, with buttons as silver as the moon."
ur "Three twilight tales" i Starlings av Jo Walton