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“Right,” Thatcher said, “let’s have a look at her.”Katherine hesitated. The kitten was fast asleep in her arms and she was afraid to wake her. “Something amiss?” Thatcher asked.Katherine giggled at ...”
“What’s gotten into you?” he wondered, blinking in sudden frustration.“Not you, that’s for a certainty.”
“Mary, we met in a pub. As you weren’t banging a tambourine, I understand you weren’t selling the word of God.”
“I saved a man's life once,' said Granny. 'Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, ...”
“I’m subject to occasional theological nightmares. The one that leaves me in a cold sweat every time is, I arrive at the pearly gates and the first thing I’m asked is where I went to college.”
“Soroya:“Where are we going? I need to know what to wear.”Graham: “Wear whatever you’re wearing right now.”I looked down. Soraya: “A hot pink lace bra and G-string? Where are you taking me, a strip ...”
“So I needed to be womanised. I was losing my sheen.”
“She wore a lot of gray-green corduroy. She had been under the impression that it brought out her eyes, those shy stars.”
“The turkeys I eat are raised on farms. They're different. They've signed on the dotted line.”
“You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.”
“Everyone’s face is odd, because we only get one.”
“Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, but obviously this got them nowhere.”
“Right, times up,” Annie declared as she not so graciously stood from the table. “On to Hot Steppers, where naked men are waiting to grind upon thy lap. Come along my trusty wenches!”
“The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one.”"Don't vote. It just encourages them....”
“He was a poet who sometimes taught Free University classes or travelled in the western states of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, speaking to high school English classes, stunning middle-class boys and g...”
“For God’s sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little applied over all your scruples is an absolute necessity! It is to the so...”
“I shrugged. “Actually, I didn’t tell her much of anything. She must’ve put two and two together all on her own and come up with you being a jerk face.”His gaze slid back to me and he grinned. “Ouch...”
“Your wolf is eating that man. I thought you should know.”
“My grandma said to me, Lailah; ‘You laugh while sleeping”
“I stifled a yawn. "It's too early to be such an asshat Daniel.”