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“I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.”
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“What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing”
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“By now, I should have learned that luck, if she was a lady, was a mean-spirited bitch with a grudge against me.”
― Red-Headed Stepchild
― Red-Headed Stepchild
“Now, nature, as I am only too aware, has her enthusiasts, but on the whole, I am not to be counted among them. To put it bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.”
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“How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.”
― Generation A
― Generation A
“Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“The saying "Life is just one damn thing after another," is a gross overstatement. The damn things overlap.”
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“The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward”
― The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
― The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
“His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle to a litter of asses.”
― Raventide
― Raventide
“It’s all very well caring about sheep when you killed six of my men,” said Phillip.”
― Dark Heir
― Dark Heir
“I have, Simon said slowly and deliberately, literally no idea what you're talking about. And I don't care. You villains and your creepy eugenics programs are starting to bore me. So I'm going to leave now.”
― City of Fallen Angels
― City of Fallen Angels
“On the contrary, tampering with things we don't know is the very essence of being a human. That's how we discovered how to make babies.”
― Sons of Darkness
― Sons of Darkness
“Early on, I'd got a sample of how Cornelia Tell questioned all motives for politeness. I'd sat down and said, "Would it be too much trouble if I got a scone with my coffee?" Cornelia Tell shot back, "Even if it does cause me trouble, do you still want a scone?" I never put it that way again, believe me. I just said, "I'd like a scone.”
― What Is Left the Daughter
― What Is Left the Daughter
“I'm sorry I said it twice," Undine said. "I sometimes suffer from an excess of zeal.”
― The Golden Tresses of the Dead
― The Golden Tresses of the Dead
“What do you want to do forever?'
He shrugged. 'I used to want to be a lawyer.'
'Used to?' She nudged him. 'I think you could be great at that.'
'Hmm, not when the only GCSEs I got spell out the word DUUUDDEE.”
― A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder Series 4 Books Set By Holly Jackson
He shrugged. 'I used to want to be a lawyer.'
'Used to?' She nudged him. 'I think you could be great at that.'
'Hmm, not when the only GCSEs I got spell out the word DUUUDDEE.”
― A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder Series 4 Books Set By Holly Jackson
“Did Alice herself have a job? She gave the appearance of being a lady of leisure. A pop-up Court of Women assembled themselves in the back seat of the Defender and gave a collective sigh.”
― Death at the Sign of the Rook
― Death at the Sign of the Rook
“Selene," I said shakily, "I think he's dead."
"Shhh," she said soothingly. "Poor darling. Sit down. Let me give you some tea."
Tea? I thought wildly. I think I killed someone, and you're offering me tea?”
― Dark Magick
"Shhh," she said soothingly. "Poor darling. Sit down. Let me give you some tea."
Tea? I thought wildly. I think I killed someone, and you're offering me tea?”
― Dark Magick
“I hope they have ghost insurance.”
“Pretty sure you've used that joke before,” Stacey told me.
“Well, maybe Jacob hadn't heard it yet.”
“I have,” Jacob said.”
― House of Whispers
“Pretty sure you've used that joke before,” Stacey told me.
“Well, maybe Jacob hadn't heard it yet.”
“I have,” Jacob said.”
― House of Whispers
“Spider legs. Some arachnid form, anyway. A xenos variety of chelicerata. But these limbs were not under a microscope. They were two hundred metres long.
'That's not local,' he said.”
― The Magos
'That's not local,' he said.”
― The Magos
“I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review.”
― My Father's House
― My Father's House
“Tijdens de maand september toen de meeste anderen bij de diverse studentenverenigingen een kennismakingsperiode doormaakten - ik niet, ik werd nihilist - dacht ik na over de weefselkweek.”
― Een vlucht regenwulpen
― Een vlucht regenwulpen
“I miss you,'' she said, her voice cracking a little. Maybe she thought those words would break through my heart. I'd been taking Nembutals all day.”
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“The animals were usually symbolic. A unicorn indicated a woman's purity, apparently. No comment, Jackson thought, or he would be up before the Court of Women, Judge Julia, his ex, presiding”
― Death at the Sign of the Rook
― Death at the Sign of the Rook
“You call that an exchange?... Wasn't it a bit one-sided for an exchange? The Indians were all butchered and the Spaniards looted their gold.”
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