“What was ‘walking on water,’ if it wasn’t Bible talk for surfing?” – Thomas Pynchon, ‘Inherent Vice’

“So we tremble. / Do we tremble? // We tremble.” – Mathias Svalina, “The Wine-Dark Sea”

“If one side is vengeance / than the other side must be / to forgive, to be // excellent to one another.” – Chloe N. Clark, “John Wick Meets Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan”

“I need to borrow this.” Miguel, to the portrait in the tomb of Oscar de la Cruz, ‘Coco’

“He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn’t owe too much money.” – Raymond Chandler, ‘The Big Sleep’

“I went back to the office and sat in my swivel chair and tried to catch up on my foot-dangling.” – Raymond Chandler, ‘The Big Sleep’

“…and I guessed that someone might even be selling tickets to see shipwrecked sailor.” – Gabriel García Márquez, ‘The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor’

“…if I had had a bottle at that moment I would have put one of the cards into it, playing shipwrecked sailor…” – Gabriel García Márquez, ‘The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor’

“It was a mathematician’s response. Of course she was correct, but the answer was useless.” – Percival Everett, ‘Dr. No’

“He’s been told that nothing is better than meeting God and cold coffee is better than nothing” – Percival Everett, ‘Dr. No’