"I've never eaten a newborn that didn't have it coming.

- SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT by Derek Landy

"As children we dream of flying but the dream gradually fades and we float back down to earth, weighed down by life. Here's to those who never came back down.

- ROCKETEERS by John Milarky

"You’re supposed to maintain vigilance Howie. That’s what lifeguards do. That’s the code we live by. You’re not supposed to fecking nap or be like a scardy-feckin-twat around the flags.

- THE FLAGS by Bridget O'Connor

"Sybil: [after having sex] I love being a woman, not because of you but because of me.

- BEDROOMS & HALLWAYS by Robert Farrar

"He put his key in the lock and the house turned.

- AFTER A DANCE by Bridget O'Connor

"Always, throughout his life, bright faces moving away, disappearing behind curtains: his mother taken back in a curtain of water, Iphigeneia wrapped in flames, Patroclus’ face as it speaks to him these nights, folded in darkness.

- ACHILLES by Elizabeth Cook

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"The Haunting was the feeling you got sometimes, in the Vurt, the real world calling you home. There’s more to life than this. This is just a game.

- VURT by Jeff Noon

"GEORGE: It's a goat in a pram. CHRIS: But this one has a motor. GEORGE: So it's a motor Goat. CHRIS: If you will.

- MAY CONTAIN NUTS by Mirren Delaney

"JAY: …Love is not eternity. Love is now. And now, and now, and now, every beat of my heart; and yes it may be a disastrous relationship, it may be the first in a string of disastrous bloated corpses of sex and love that will stretch across the massacre of my life... But it’ll be true, Sall, and it’ll be true because… I love you... [Every eye is on him. Sally doesn’t move. He is seized by the Invigilator and a SECURITY GUY and walked out. Silence.]

- OEDIPUS by John McNally

"Her father said: ‘It’s no good, my legs are broken and I can’t fish anymore. The well is dry, the field is dust, the donkeys are skin and bone but you my child are young and strong… You can get us food.

- STONE SOUP by Cas Willing

"Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.

- MORE THAN THIS by Patrick Ness

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