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“I would have thought you’d pay more attention to your closest competition.”
“I would—if you were competition worth paying attention to.”
― Rachel Morgan, The Faerie Guardian

“Creepy Hollow?” He snorts. “Like Sleepy Hollow?”
“No, like Creepy Hollow. It has nothing to do with sleeping.”
― Rachel Morgan, The Faerie Guardian

“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, The Faerie Guardian

“Is that what you were doing in my room?” he asks after a moment.
I sigh. Why am I telling him any of this? “Yes. I was on assignment.”
“I was your assignment?”
“Yes.”
He hesitates a moment, then grins. “That’s kind of hot.”
― Rachel Morgan, The Faerie Guardian

“Seelie Court,” murmurs Nate. “Sounds familiar. Was it in a computer game?”
“Do I look like someone who plays computer games?”
A grin stretches across Nate’s face. “You look like someone who could be in a computer game.”
― Rachel Morgan, The Faerie Guardian

“Are you serious? Vi’s arm has been magically barbequed and you think she
needs a cupcake?”
― Rachel Morgan, The Faerie Guardian

“It also makes my father right again. How will I ever soar with the eagles if I'm surrounded by turkeys?”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“Not funny ha ha, funny weird”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Place

“I'm holding a super-expandable energy-powered towel. I've made friends with space hamsters. I think we've stretched believability rather far, don't you?”
― Michael S. Atkinson

“He feared what getting involved with her might mean, but he wanted this deal involving chocolate and would risk lying with something not entirely female to get it.”
― M. Pax

“There are a lot of fun vacation spots in the universe; the bug-pits of Aylorta Five are not one of them.”
― Michael S. Atkinson

“Good luck explaining to God that you used to spank one of his heavenly beings."
Mom gave a startled laugh. "Sophie!"
"What? You did. I hope you like hot weather, Mom, that's all I'm saying.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Hex Hall

“You can take a flyin’ leap off a space dock.”
― M. Pax, The Backworlds

“It made Craze smile, despite wishing most of his body parts would find new homes and leave him in peace.”
― M. Pax, The Backworlds

“Erica had asked me a million times. 'Madison, are you sure you’re just the child minder? He pays you a lot of money for doing hardly anything.' Pushing aside the blatant insinuation that I was his weekend whore, I’d always told her the absolute truth. He’d never so much as looked at me inappropriately, let alone anything more.”
― Kyra Lennon, If I Let You Go

“I focused, rather embarrassingly, on his chest which was rising and falling slowly.

I left teeth marks!”
― Kyra Lennon, If I Let You Go

“His jaw was set, telling me I should back off. Unfortunately, being a gobby cow meant I couldn’t.”
― Kyra Lennon, If I Let You Go

“When things go wrong and will not come right,
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night,
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.”
― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

“With these words there came the rending scream of a shattered stirk and an angry troubling of the branches as the poor madman percolated through the sieve of a sharp yew, a wailing black meteor hurtling through green clouds, a human prickles.”
― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

“When money's tight and is hard to get
And your horse has also ran,
When all you have is a heap of debt
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.”
― Flann O'Brien

“For my sustenance at night,
the whole that my hands can glean
from the gloom of the oak-gloomed oaks--
the herbs and the plenteous fruits...”
― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

“The warm days of Firestreak are usually good for travellers in the world of Amarillia.”
― Ian Livingstone, Firestorm

“Friend, we are well met indeed. I think we are a pair of fools and that we should hasten to Nildren's Peak, where I shall buy ye such a dinner as even your great frame will find sufficient. And then we shall see who can drink the other under the table. Is that good by ye?”
― Ian Livingstone, Firestorm

“Hirsute? What does that mean?'
'Hair, you ninny, hair!”
― Carl Sargent, Firestorm

“By Duraden, I have trolls dancing in my head this morning!' Stubble grumbled, screwing his eyes into a squint at the bright morning light.”
― Carl Sargent, Firestorm

“I think this goat must have been fed on old boots,' Stubble complained as he chewed the last scraps of flesh from the bones littering his stew.”
― Carl Sargent, Firestorm

“Has Solan addled your brain?”
― Carl Sargent, Firestorm

“Well, anyway, this'll be easier than knocking an elf out of a tree. Trust me.'
'How many elves have you knocked out of trees, Stubble?'
'Duraden's bones! Have ye never heard of a figure of speech?”
― Ian Livingstone, Firestorm

“Solan is descending in the sky...”
― Ian Livingstone, Firestorm

“I am come,' the Demon said simply, in a droning monotone. 'I am with the dead of the lake. Come to me.' Then the appearance of the skull-face vanished and the blood burst into a shroud of flame, spreading through the throne room in a storm of brilliant red and yellow. The screams could be heard half a league away.”
― Ian Livingstone, Firestorm