The waiter approached.'Would you like to see the menu?' he said. 'Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?''Huh?' said Ford. 'Huh?' said Arthur.'Huh?' said Trillian.'That’s cool,' said Zaphod. '...
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...
That's what yer little sister said,' said Hagrid, nodding at Ron. Met her jus' yesterday.' Hagrid looked sideways at Harry, his beard twitching. 'Said she was jus' lookin' round the grounds, but I rec...
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...
Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000. But it...
People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t
May 29, the Central Committee of the Sections goes into permanent session — what a fine, crisis-ridden sound it has, that term!
Lord Daner isn't my boyfriend, Eleret said, annoyed. She'd let it go by once, but after two mentions, she had to correct him. Karvonen would drive her crazy if he kept referring to Daner that way.Huh....
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...
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...
Is this what you do with your spare time? he asked me, ignoring his sister.What—are you deciding to talk to me now? Smiling tightly, I grabbed a handful of mulch and dumped it. Rinse and repeat. Yeah,...
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.
I think back to those days after the Bastille fell, the Mercure Nationale run from the back of the shop, that little Louise sticking her well-bred nose in the air and flouncing off to bawl out their p...
I swear to hold my tongue about it till the end of your worship's days, and God grant I may be able to let it out tomorrow
I surround myself with all eight throw pillows while hugging two. What is so bad and uninteresting about me, Alex? Peter was the fifth break up––Sixth– –Sixth break up in the last two years. And I’m a...
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...
I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.
I can recall quite clearly the journey from Omaha to San Francisco which I made with the opera troupe; God had created the world in less time than it took us to travel across America.
He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze, stain, lethargy, vocal slip, loss of balance or lapse of memory that would signal the inevitable begi...
Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing I had died at childbirth.Oh, you say that...