Sophie

“Well, are you not going to give the man a round of applause?" he asked. "I mean, that was fucking amazing, didn't you think? Honestly, if you'd asked me ten minutes ago, hypothetically, if it was possible to cut your own head off, I'd have said unequivocally no. You've really got to hand it to the bloke -- though it's fair to say luck was involved. I mean, there's no way he could do it again.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Be My Enemy

“The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I'd backed myself into a corner, and the corner was me.”
― John Welter, Night of the Avenging Blowfish: A Novel of Covert Operations, Love, and Luncheon Meat

“Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Not the End of the World