Lara Sypher

“Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he saw the hordes advancing on Aidan, he charged off that way, whirling the great vegetable. The Puck, who was rushing behind the horde, yelling at them to grab Aidan and kill Rolf, was Mr. Stock's first victim. The marrow caught him THOCK! on the side of the head. It laid the Puck out cold on the grass, but the mighty vegetable remained intact, mottled and glossy”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Enchanted Glass

“Darwin is my copilot.”
― T. Rafael Cimino, A Battle of Angels

“Any day that we are privileged to work at the chalk face is a good one," Van der Huffen replied dryly.
"We should pay the Department for the privilege," Bruce Smith, Head Teacher Creative Arts and Languages, replied.
"I believe that many of us have; the coin is sweat, fat, and tears.”
― Christine M Knight

“It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude