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“The drive to Canton was uneventful, and when I walked into the store of my cell phone carrier, I handed the phone to the teenager behind the desk. “Whoa, what happened here?” “It got run over by an Amish buggy,” I said forlornly. He whistled. “Bummer, but it’s not the first time I’ve heard that one.”
― Amanda Flower, Toxic Toffee

“Until one experienced a profound loss of their own it was impossible to explain that sorrow never vanishes. It was a war fought not in long, drawn-out battles, but in the everyday, unexpected moments.”
― Carlene O'Connor, Murder in an Irish Cottage

“The one conclusion she had reached was that she was sure Nigel Nivens was innocent.”
― Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Demands Justice

“As they walked up the hill, their breaths puffing into the crisp air, Émile glanced at Armand, Henri walking at his side. Did he seem better? Was he getting better? Émile thought so, but he also knew it was the internal injuries that did the most damage. The worst was always hidden.”
― Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead

“You’re not, you’re nothing special, why, you’re just the frozen pizza of librarians,” the woman shouted, and then she hung up.”
― Jenn McKinlay, Killer Research

“He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“What shall we do, what shall we do!” he cried. “Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say “out of the frying-pan into the fire” in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“You can if things until you go crazy, my girl.”
― Stephen King, Gwendy's Button Box

“Dinky behind?” Fergie blushed. “Well, as far as I ever noticed, I can’t recall finding her posterior insignificant. I rather recall a certain satisfaction in watching her walk away.”
― R.L. Buck, Death in the Cabbage Patch

“If a dense human still fails to get the message, reach over and touch the item you intend for them to share, or touch an arm or cheek with your paw.”
― Michael Ray Taylor, The Cat Manual

“Second, with determination and focus, it is possible to wait for the moment when the human puckers up to blow. At that instant, spit the pill the short distance into the human’s mouth. See how well they like it.”
― Michael Ray Taylor, The Cat Manual

“There are orcs and trolls, there are wargs and werewolves; and there have been and still are many Men, warriors and kings, that walk alive under the Sun, and yet are under his sway. And their number is growing daily.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“How could they?” The woman scoffs. “I’ve been dead for fifteen years.”
― Addison Moore, Cruising Through Midlife

“Much of what she had done, she had been doing for her parents’ happiness.”
― Grace Lewis, Blossoming into Family: Inspirational Amish Romance