“ The first time Calypso came to check on [Leo], it was to complain about the noise.Smoke and fire, she said. Clanging on metal all day long. You’re scaring away the birds!Oh, no, not the birds! Rick Riordan
“ The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to… Charles Dickens
“ So even though his involvement with the goblin uprising during his fourteenth year was to be traumatic, terrifying, and dangerous; it was probably the best thing that could have happened. At least he… Eoin Colfer
“ I'm working from the assumption it's going to go horribly wrong. If we get out of here with limbs intact and no aspen slivers in uncomfortable places, we're calling it a win.Merit/Jonah Chloe Neill
“ I thought you were a drunk.A drunk?Bloodshot eyes, dirty clothes, getting home in the wee hours of the morning, making a lot ofnoise, grouchy all the time as if you had a hangover… what else was I to… Linda Howard
“ Give me a few minutes.You have time. He sat in the grass.Are you just going to sit there and watch me?Yes. Watching pretty peasant girls is what we poor little rich boys do best.Peasant?He shrugged. Y… Ilona Andrews
“ Because were were both probationary constables, an experienced PC had been left to supervise us - a responsibility he diligently pursued from an all-night cafe on St. Martin's Close. Ben Aaronovitch
“ Why should repeat 2-3 for the same question. Let tongue and brain connect before talking.I'm not sarcastic, I'm just brutally honest ! ikke achmad
“ That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm. Christopher Moore
“ She'd asked him what it was like to be in there, doing nothing but then being woken up to speak to somebody you couldn't see. He'd said that it was like being woken from a deep and satisfying sleep, t… Iain M. Banks
“ Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.' How'd that work out for you again? Sherrilyn Kenyon
“ Miss Prendregast! He rapped on his desk with his knuckles. You were never in any danger!Except from the wild animals.His lids swept down as if he needed a reprieve from looking at her. Alert me if you… Christina Dodd
“ I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills. Margaret Atwood
“ Do you expect to learn anything at Shiz? he asked. I have already learned not to speak to strangers. Then I will introduce myself and we will be strangers no longer. I am Dillamond. I am disinclined t… Gregory Maguire
“ Death's got an Invisibility Cloak? Harry interrupted again.So he can sneak up on people, said Ron. Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking... J.K. Rowling
“ Pretending will only make us anxious and encourages us to make friends with a reason, then depending with lies, thereafter we will make love with stupidity ikke achmad
“ They also, [the drone] said, refuse to acknowledge machine sentience fully; they exploit proto-conscious computers and claim only human subjective experience has any intrinsic value — carbon fascists. Iain M. Banks
“ Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you wouldn't expect, from the Buddha flowerpots to the wallpaper decorated with symbols tha… Kelley Armstrong
“ I once visited a place where they killed people by putting them in a chair. Not torture — that was common enough; beds and chairs were very much the par when it came to getting people helpless and con… Iain M. Banks
