“ I'm leaving the door partly open," he says as he follows Tegan. "You scream if you need me."Once he is outside, Richard says, "He does realize that if he hears your scream, it's already too late. J.A. London
“ America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want. Robin Sloan
“ I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been. —Enid Healy Seanan McGuire
“ Scott Waldron.' 'What?' Robbie's lip curled in a glimace of disgust. 'The jockstrap? Why, does he need you to teach him how to read?' I scowled at him. 'Just because he's captain of the football team… Julie Kagawa
“ [The cats] scamper in front of my legs, causing me to fall and face plant into whatever furniture is closest. They especially like to play this game when I’m carrying piping hot coffee. Wes Locher
“ The skanky vamp biting for bucks on the dark end of state street is your ex boyfriend?" William asked. The look on William's face implied he hoped I washed after interacting with Parrish Tate Hallaway
“ Though I normally approve of plain speaking, as you know, I would suggest that as part of your good behavior, you refer to the king as 'his grace' or even simply 'the king' instead of 'that creature,'… Susan Higginbotham
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“ As is perhaps obvious, Morris Zapp had no great esteem for his fellow-labourers in the vineyards of literature. They seemed to him vague, fickle, irresponsible creatures, who wallowed in relativism li… David Lodge
“ Rose unearthed three crystal goblets that almost matched, and even found a tablecloth that hadn't been attacked by moths since its last public appearance. Elizabeth C. Bunce
“ I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish. Jerome K. Jerome
“ OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything. Gary D. Schmidt
“ According to the fortune-cookie logic most people live by, the best things in life are free. That's crap. I have a gold-plated robot that scratches the exact part of my back where my hands can't reach… Josh Lieb
“ You guys dated, didn’t you?”“Are you insane? Not even if the continuation of our kind depended on it would I be tempted to do something so awful. Rachel Morgan
“ Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called. "Okay, look." Deb's face was dead serious. "I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you'v… Sarah Dessen