It was supposed to say Great Artist on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say such a good teacher/daughter/friend instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that...
It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever, he said. Have you thought of going into teaching?
It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.
It's very important my parent's don't think I'm starting to fall in love with people, because then they might notice that I'm growing up, and I'm kind of trying to keep it a secret. I think it will ca...
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...
It’s like George always says: being in a rock ʼn’ roll band is very sexy, even when you’re only the keyboard player and your idea of the perfect Saturday night actually amounts to a bubble bath, a Ric...
Ivy looked up, clearly embarrassed. I'm sorry about your men at the car. I didn't recognize them. They tried to stop me from coming in.My eyebrows rose, and Rynn Cormel's laughter shocked both Ivy and...
I’d managed to find a hobbit in the Caucasus Mountains. I wondered what he would do if I asked him about second breakfast.
I’ll always be your friend, he said. Your best friend, if you let me. But I want to be your lover, too. He groaned and shifted in his chair. Soon. I want to be that soon. Then a look came over him. Oh...
I’m not going anywhere until you hear me out.Oh, please no. Anything except having to listen to her lecture. I push the button that calls the nurse. a voice bellows through the speaker.I’m bein’ tortu...
I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to be a dickhead. Well, I did.
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
Just because you said dragon demons were extinct—I said mostly extinct.Alec jabbed a finger toward him.Mostly extinct, he said, his voice trembling with rage, is NOTEXTINCT ENOUGH.I see, said Jace. I'...
Just leave me alone, I want to be alone, she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.
Just think, she said to herself. I could be living on the Right Bank. I could be married to a senior clerk at the Treasury. I could be sitting with my feet up, embroidering a linen handkerchief with a...
Kayla snatched the ruby-coloured bra he'd dug out from behind his back. You should know, you're the one who got it off me, she said.
Lately...the Peter Principle has given way to the Dilbert Principle. The basic concept of the Dilbert Principle is that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they ca...
Learn to drive?Never, said Quentin. My mission in life is to be a passenger.
Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C+...
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.
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