He muttered, “Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw. I give up. Either this guy is the invisible man or, or...or I don't know what. Or this is all a conspiracy and you're all involved, or something. Fuck...me.”
[… M]any Instances have lately happened of notorious Malefactors, as well as Persons imprisoned for Debt, breaking and making their Escape out of Goale, and so by the Help of their Confederates secretting themselves, and clandestinely getting off the Island, by which Means Delinquents evade Justice, and honest People are deprived of their due Debts, to the great Detriment of the Publick […]
Deliberately, and with a peculiar quivering smile, that seemed to overspread her whole body, she put her mouth on his.
Penguin 2006, p. 289
I became a novillero when I was fourteen, but I had already been going to the fields and caping bulls since I was about twelve.
