/lit/ - Literature

Post a novel no one here has read. Include a quote from it. Maybe you'll get others interested.

>"He pulled her back. Something--his slightly abnormal shortness, I suppose--made me suddenly think that, like many people who abuse their power over others, he carried into adulthood some ancient sense of himself as a victim. I felt certain that he saw himself as the weaker party here; entitled--even obliged--to use any weapon he could: that he wasn't so much trying to possess the girl as conducting an ongoing act of defiance against the hand nature had dealt him as a physical specimen; a hand that appeared to have ruled beauty of the order this girl possessed forever out of reach."