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“Percy looked at his friends. "I'm getting tired of this guy's shirt.""Combat time?" Piper grabbed her horn of plenty."I hate wonder bread," Jason said.Together, they charged.”
“It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.”
“Sorry, no. I refuse to join an army which practices human sacrifice and has no adequate pension plan.”
“It made Craze smile, despite wishing most of his body parts would find new homes and leave him in peace.”
“I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.”
“lose weight, eat backwards.”
“But the sounds behind me tell me why. I risk a glance and see so many Zs on our asses that I wonder if they've been doing pilates all this time to get in shape for the great Whispering Pines mad-da...”
“You can take that needle out of my leg now. I'd like to pull up my pants.”
“People say talking to yourself is the first sign of madness. It's not. It's eye bloody spy.”
“You know what would be awesome? . . . If I could have a machete.”
“It is observed that Failed people can give a successful talk on hardwork.”
“Oh yes, it's very tragic. Why does everyone always like love stories? What about absence-of-love stories? Aren't they much more common?”
“But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears', for instance, is "Never break int...”
“It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just come from doing a spot of knitting at the foot of the guillotine.”
“People talk about the joy of running--of the endorphins and reaching a Zen-like clarity of mind. This had never happened to me. Mostly, all I thought about when I ran was how much further I had to ...”
“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.”
“...the more of a fool a man is, the less he cares to look like one”
“There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.”
“They seek him here. They seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in Heaven? Or is he in Hell? That damned, illusive pimpernel.”
“Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them.”
