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[commenting on the battle] ‘And my husband?’ Tirumalamba Devi cried. ‘What about the king?’ Pampa Kampana fell silent and put her hands up her face. ‘The king?’ Tirumalamba Devi shouted. ‘Pampa Kampana, what news?’ ‘Alas, the king is old,' Pampa Kampana wailed. ‘He is old and the battle is long. He has been up on that elephant a long time.’ ‘What has happened?’ Tirumalamba Devi cried. ‘Tell me at once!’ ‘Alas for us all, my queen,’ Pampa Kampana wept through sightless eyes. ‘The king... the king... needed to piss.’ ‘To piss? Pampa Kampana, you speak of piss?’

— Victory City by Salman Rushdie (Page 364)

‘It is said that any man who enters here will be transformed into a woman at once.’ [...] Then Grandmaster Li said, [...] ‘I will go with you into the forest of Aranyani, come what may.' [...] Haleya Kote thought for a moment. ‘Okay,’ he said at last. ‘Fuck it. I'll stay.’ [with you and enter]

— Victory City by Salman Rushdie (Page 134 - 135)

[On the second encounter, Nunes and Kampana see into each others eyes and immediately recognize the mutual love. Kampana tries to get soft words and terms of endearment, while Nunes rambles about fireworks and gunpowder] ‘What's a gun?’ Pampa Kampana asked. ‘It's a weapon that will change the world,’ Domingo Nunes said. ‘And I can build it for you if you want.’ ‘They make love differently in Portugal,’ said Pampa Kampana. ‘I see that now.’

— Victory City by Salman Rushdie (Page 43)

‘Sire,’ he said, ‘among Europeans, the savagery of the French is exceeded only by the cruelty of the Dutch. The English are at present a backward race, but it is my guess, though many of my countrymen would disagree with me, that they may end up being the worst of the whole bunch, and the map of half the world may be coloured pink’

— Victory City by Salman Rushdie (Page 38)

The bells toll, and I slide a copy of Some Girls Do back into its place

— Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling (Page 122)

»Ich würde zu gern bei dir an der Kasse stehen und so tun, als wäre ich eine Kundin aus der Hölle. Nach Grünkohlchips fragen.«

— The Kill Club by Wendy Heard (Page 176)

I can't believe you have art of Coven here. [...] dark fantasy graphic novels [...]

— Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler (Page 189)

Then, when everything went on hiatus during Covid [...]

— Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler (Page 165)

She points to a door covered with an autographed poster from the Moonlight Overthrow reunion show [...]

— Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler (Page 167)