Cat Fu (carocat)

“He devised his own con games. He placed ads in newspapers offering a color picture of the President for a dollar. When he received a dollar, he sent his victim a postage stamp with a picture of the President on it.
He put announcements in magazines warning the public that there were only sixty days left to send in five dollars, that after that it would be too late. The ad did not specify what the five dollars would buy, but the money poured in.”
― Sidney Sheldon, if tomorrow comes tell me your dreams

“I have a question, it won't take long," I said, hoping for diversion.
"Nothing you do takes very long." You could hear the smile in her voice.
I have found it best to ignore such remarks.”
― Brad Statton

“This way and stop looking so positive: optimism doesn't fit a prisoner's profile."
Poe obediently lowered his head and adopted as morose an expression as possible.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Star Wars: The Force Awakens

“Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the Sea. That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, ‘a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep, or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.’ Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear and sadness.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring