The Bumblebee

“For eighteen years, my unibrow has saved me from being sold into a painful, terrifying death.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“One of his front teeth was chipped from the time he’d taken his daddy’s Porsche for a joyride and run into a PLEASE SLOW DOWN FOR CHILDREN sign.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

“Bad spelling can be lethal. For example, the greedy seraph of Al-Ybi was cursed by a badly-educated deity and for some days everything he touched turned to Glod, which happened to be the name of a small dwarf from a mountain community hundreds of miles away who found himself magically dragged to the kingdom and relentlessly duplicated. Some two thousand Glods later the spell wore off. These days, the people of Al-Ybi are renowned for being unusually short and bad-tempered.”
― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

“While the cat's away, the mice will eat in the lounge without plates or cutlery.”
― Juno Dawson, The Shadow Cabinet