"It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all."
— P.G. Wodehouse

"I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose."
— P.G. Wodehouse

"What ho!" I said.

"What ho!" said Motty.

"What ho! What ho!"

"What ho! What ho! What ho!"

After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation."
— P.G. Wodehouse

""Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together."
"What?"
"Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud."
"That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of."
"The people who've been in your secret hiding places."
"The people you bite your thumb in front of."
"Hi."
"Hi."
"..."
"..."
"Wow. My first Lindsey."
"My second Colin."
"That was fun. Let's try it again."
"Sold."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"...""
— John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)

"'Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.'"
— Susanna Clarke (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)

"When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies"
— John Fowles (The Collector)

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
— Daphne du Maurier (Rebecca)

"It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did."
— John Fowles (The Magus)

"It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland."
— John Fowles

"So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--

"Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry."

"It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ."

"Yes, that is so," said the fox.

"But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince.

"Yes, that is so," said the fox.

"Then it has done you no good at all!"

"It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields." "
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)