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“When someone uses the phrase the prick one, and you know immediately that this is a synonym for the word metaphorically, you are entitled to wonder whether you know the speaker too well. You are ev...”
“Please Note:Although it is true that some havebeen captured; we would like toassure you that no thoughts, orimages, have been harmed during the making of this book.”
“Your mother was a hero. She developed a spell for gnomeatic fever. And she was the youngest headmaster in Watford history.Baz is looking at Penny like theyve never met.And, Penny goes on, she defen...”
“How dense and literal it is. I thought it had a much more sophisticated brain." "Your mother is dense," Alif said wearily. "My mother was an errant crest of sea foam. But that is neither here nor t...”
“Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?"Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.”
“...some men say get them crying on your shoulder and you have the sheets half-unfurled already. Other fellows say get them laughing. I say get them drunk. I ordered up more Riesling...”
“I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great.”
“Cider was my drink because I liked the taste and it made me stupid.”
“In some company its perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.”
“Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundr...”
“Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.”
“What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over”
“No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation”
“For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed.”
“Am I gay, am I straight? No, I'm just slutty. So, where's my parade? What about slut pride.”
“Im Sam Donovan. I know who you are. Mrs. Kulavich told me. Im Jaine Bright. I know. She told me. She even told me how you spell your name. Now, how on earth had Mrs. Kulavich known that?”
“You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.”
“I want you to move in with me, man.""Nah. I appreciate it, but I need to get a place of my own. I'm a grownup.”
“Political life is best treated with antibiotics.”
“[About Uluru] I'm suggesting nothing here, but I will say that if you were an intergalactic traveler who had broken down in our solar system, the obvious directions to rescuers would be: "Go to the...”
