What I still don’t get though, ventured John. Is why you did it?Did what?Put that dress on in the first place.I don’t know really, said Dennis, a puzzled look crossing his face. I suppose it’s because...
The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else. You're the corpse in an English murde...
Sure you can manage that broom, Potter? said a cold, drawling voice.Draco Malfoy had arrived for a closer look, Crabbe and Goyle right behind him.Yeah, reckon so, said Harry casually.Got plenty of spe...
Psipsina emerged from inside the tunic, and jumped up on the table in order to curl up inside the cap, which had been her favourite resting place ever since she discovered the joys of contortionism; s...
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.
Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda. She was an incredibly comfortable person to be around, partly because she had a mind so broad it c...
Miss Taverner took the whip and reins in her hands, and mounted into the driving-seat, scorning assistance.Take your orders from Miss Taverner, Henry, said the Earl, getting up beside his ward.Me Lord...
May 29, the Central Committee of the Sections goes into permanent session — what a fine, crisis-ridden sound it has, that term!
Listen, I didn’t ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents’ DNA, I’ve got them, and I’m not ashamed to use ’em.
It’s a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. . . . It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the unus...
If you would feel comfortable going around to someone's house at the end of a long day saying, I'm just going to take my bra off, you know you are intimate friends.
If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!
I must own, too, that I can't be astonished at his being vexed to death over this business. It is excessively awkward! However, he doesn't lay the blame for that at my door: you mustn't think that!I s...
Hobbes: UGH! something under the bed is drooling.Calvin: Start tying the sheets. We'll go out the window.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Fascination exists only in the imagination of the fascinated.
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.
Don't mind Russ, he says. He's a good kid underneath all those holes, although it's a wonder he doesn't spring a leak when he drinks
Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want to hire you, and a witch is what they call you when they're getting ready to run you out...