By: Naomi Mitchison

“The curious brutalities we seem to like now in our amusements…”

By: Charlotte Haldane

‘I think he’s dead by now.’

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

I was really leaving an old course of life…

By: Charlotte Haldane

“‘Oxygen,’ Christopher shouted.”

By: Charlotte Haldane

‘There are always discontented people about.’

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“They’re a bit splitty, the Ministry, I mean.…”

By: Charlotte Haldane

‘It’s a serious thing, you know, what you’re contemplating.’

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“I half relished the idea of getting into a mess…”

By: Charlotte Haldane

‘I decided I would not become a mother.’

By: Charlotte Haldane

“Vive l’anarchisme.”

By: Charlotte Haldane

‘I don’t want her to mate; at any rate, not yet.’

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

His eyes were disconcertingly furtive.

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“A race clear-sighted, eminently practical, incredible…”

By: Charlotte Haldane

“We naturally wish to breed from the best available material.”

By: Raymond Roussel

“A device that moved back and forth constantly, he decide, ought to produce… a mosaic.”