I’m too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.

Of course, if we do find the Great Glom, we will see other gloms as well,” said Dottia. “I mean, he will not exist alone, will he? Mythic creatures like him are often spoken of...

He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom – a broom that would have fired the imagination of Rachel the Dragon...

A huge meringue with polio who drives everywhere in a beautifully restored Hillman Imp.

Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.

Caldris led them over to a large covered basket that sat on the stones near the docked dinghy. He undid the cover, reached in and removed a live kitten. “- Hello, you monstrous little necessity”....

This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind’s rosebushes.

I don’t know who you are; you could be an axe murderer for all I know. How am I supposed to trust you and follow you? For that matter, follow you where?” Gabe inquired.”Search yourself,...

There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.

In the murk ahead of them a pair of blazing torches indicated the entrance to the forum, with a pair of sentries standing guard in front of the high archway. Before the tribune had any...

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.‘Quite so…

I was afraid these new shoes would not be sturdy enough.

Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.

When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top

I can’t decide whether I’m a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I’m a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that’s how I know I’m a woman!

We shouldn’t judge people. But there’s a difference between judging and observing. And sometimes as we observe, our eyebrows become raised. Observation with an attitude, that’s what I like to call it.

A black-haired bitch with man’s hands, widow Liza Van der Bruggenziltch-Finch makes all the important decisions. She is a power-hungry dominatrix. Orwell is her slave. (No one ever sees him.)

Fifteen minutes later, Justin looks at his pint of blood with pride. He doesn’t want it to go to some stranger, he almost wants to bring it to the hospital himself, survey the wards and...

I have been told the best things in life are free ~ I found them very expensive.

A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.

I’m sure that’s a rule. Or should be. For my sisters anyway.

I catch sight of Janice. Her eyes are so full of excitement that I half expect her to jump up and down. This is something she’ll never forget, I tell myself. As an old lady...

My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept...

I have chiseled features. Look. Look how chiseled they are. And my teeth are at least as white as his. You seriously think he’s good-lookin’?””I do,” said Tanith.”Right,” Sanguine said and nodded. “I’m gonna kill...

He said he wouldn’t stay, as he didn’t care much for the smell of the paint, and fell over the scraper as he went out. Must get the scraper removed, or else I shall get...

Life is the courier of the universal brilliance.” Elysse

Eating was still a sore point with Smriti.She failed to understand,when interesting options like mango juice or chocolates were available,why was she forced by her stupid mother to eat boring regular meals?After much contemplation,Nikhil came...

Another strike of lightening – now accompanied by the deep-bellied rumble, and the horse reared, incidentally setting Henry very picturesquely against the inconstant moon. Alas, Catherine was deeply engaged in her argument with Old Edric...

I saw two birds having dangerously kinky sex on the main road, while several cars ran above them just missing the sparrows’ toss and tumble fly away. The couple survived to try it again next...

I AM Groot

So you’re a fellow mercenary, then.Does this mean you’ll afford me some professional courtesy?Don’t ask for that. All it means is that you might get to face the person who kills you. . . But...

You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are...

The champagne had been donated by one of Gus’s doctors – Gus being the kind of person who inspires doctors to give their best bottles of champagne to children.

You’re Ma’s own blood son, but did she take on that time Tony Fontaine shot you in the leg? No, she just sent for old Doc Fontaine to dress it and asked the doctor what...

You can only fight one man at a time with a sword, but, with a pen, you can compose a lecture to bore legions of enemy troops to death.

I’ve had quite enough danger for a while I think. I might have some more when I’m thirteen, but definitely not before then…

I suppose when you say you slept with him, it was more than just a nap?”Lillian shot her a withering glance. “Daisy, don’t be a pea wit.

Higgledy piggledy, my black hen,She lays eggs for gentlemen.Gentlemen come every dayTo count what my black hen doth lay.If perchance she lays too many,They fine my hen a pretty penny;If perchance she fails to lay,The...

It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over.

If Yo Mama and Yo Daddy got a divorce, they’d still be brother and sister.

I blame Chennai. Pointless neighbourhood gossip travels faster than tsunami alerts around here. I know that aunties are a universal problem but this city is particularly aunty dominated. And by that, I mean, even many...

As usual, he saves his wife’s for last. He leans on the cane and he looks at the headstone and he thinks about many things. Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take...

We were sent to Afghanistan to carry out hugely dangerous missions. But we were also told that we could not shoot that camel drover before he blew up all of us, because he might be...

Contrary to popular belief, people always say “It was a pleasure doing business with you”. It is the only thing that has stayed with me after an assignment. Always mix business with pleasure. That is...

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you’re thirsty.”Gideon Wyeth:”Why?”Ethan: “Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.

i do not give a sh*t, the toilet miss me now

Time, plenty of it came to the rescue here: Kelly was to engage in self-expression. In Jake’s vocabulary this was a vague term applied to activities like swearing and children’s art but in the present...

Suddenly he caught his reflection in the mirror behind her. His face was twisted into a dark scowl, and he was standing there naked, with a boner, and another man’s business card in his hand.He...

GUIL: It [Hamlet’s madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints...