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“The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.”
“Adam's response was buried in the sound of the first-story door falling open. Noah slouched in. In a wounded tone, he said, "He threw me out the window!"Ronan's voice sang out from behind his close...”
“All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.”
“Brooke?" he finally found the sense to ask. "What are you doing here?""I need a gun."This was not how his dream was supposed to go.”
“What the dev er, deuce did you do that for? It hurt!Good, said the angel. I was afraid these new shoes would not be sturdy enough.”
“Gimme an S! A T! An O! A C! Followed by a K-H-O-L-M! What's it spell? HEAD FUCK.- Jane”
“Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so tha...”
“Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war.""The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?”
“She'd met Colin on a Monday.She'd kissed him on a Friday.Twelve years later.She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.”
“I'm calling it the Watney Triangle because after what I've been through, shit on Mars should be named after me.”
“Literature doesnt exactly have a strong mental-health track record.”
“Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates.”
“The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.”
“Normal" is just a setting on your dryer.”
“Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it!”
“Marry me, he says. I got all my own teeth, I wash twice a year an I'll cut you in fer half the business here.”
“You dont understand, I said. I need to be with her. With every fibre of my being I ache for her. Im in love.I do understand, said Zoran. It was same for me with Mrs Zoran when I first meet her. But...”
“Dammit. I think Im in like with the naked man I met today.”
“A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, "How to Build a Boat.”
“The lampshade on my head is for my bright ideas. I won't be able to convey them until Monday, when my curtain gets out of the dry cleaners.”
