He handed the phone to Rosa with a quick warning, “You can zoom but don’t go scrolling unless you wanna see pics of my pork cork.” “Your what?” she asked innocently. “You know, my pants lance? My plaster blaster? My tonsil tickler? The ole
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“It was a small flat, a sitting room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen, and it was an example of how careless people can be when they live alone,”
― Jar City
― Jar City
“To hide inside MI5 for nearly thirty years, while protecting a host of Soviet spies and covering his tracks, would have required a spy of rare intellectual agility. No one would have described Roger Hollis that way. He was a plodding, slightly droopy bureaucrat with the imaginative flair of an omelet.”
― Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
― Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
“Patra was trying to read Hegel’s Science of Logic. This is something no one should ever feel obliged to do.”
― Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
― Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
“I like all wildlife, so long as it’s not trying to run away with a body part of mine. But the last thing that I wanted to see was this little prick laying eggs and making multiple versions of itself, following me from room to room for the rest of my days.”
― A Lonely Broadcast: Book One
― A Lonely Broadcast: Book One
“They were washed and in the middle of good deep mugs of beer when Mr. Butterbur and Nob came in again. In a twinkling the table was laid. There was hot soup, cold meats, a blackberry tart, new loaves, slabs of butter, and half a ripe cheese: good plain food, as good as the Shire could show, and homelike enough to dispel the last of Sam’s misgivings (already much relieved by the excellence of the beer).”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
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