Jane Ryder

“Go and see whether the Doctor is about,’ said Jack, ‘and if he is, ask him to look in, when he has a moment.’
Which he is in the fish-market, turning over some old-fashioned lobsters. No. I tell a lie. That is him, falling down the companion-way and cursing in foreign.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen

“Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."
(Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days

“For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it...”
― Patrick O'Brian, Master & Commander