Jitendra Mulay

“My colleague deciphered some bits of the writing on the wolf-totem jar. He found a smattering of words and phrases that spoke of death and destruction. Nothing more."
"So basically a waning label," Painter said.
Kowalski frowned, "Why didn't they just slap it with a skull and crossbones to begin with? It would've saved everyone a bunch of trouble.”
― James Rollins, The Devil Colony

“Swaminathan had never thought that this story contained a moral. But now he felt that it must have one since the question paper mentioned it.”
― R.K. Narayan, Swami and Friends

“But this payment goes well beyond my generosity," the monk responded.

"Don’t say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation