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“How do you know when a fish is going bonkers?’ ‘They start preaching about the end of the world,’ Slim chuckles.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“Maybe we’d all be much more effective communicators if we all shut up more.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“Love is a smoke rais’d with the fume of sighs; being purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes . . .
—William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet”
― Julianne MacLean, A Fire Sparkling

“The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife. Trin Tragula – for that was his name – was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Trilogy in Five Parts

“if human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Trilogy in Five Parts

“it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Trilogy in Five Parts

“What are your professional qualifications?’ He laughed. ‘The university of life. The school of hard knocks.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Effect

“families where the parents float around in a haze of brightly coloured hemp and honey-almond candles, a copy of a self-help book tucked under an arm, and a Dalai Lama keyring for their four-wheel-drive clutched in their hand.”
― John Marsden, The Art of Growing Up

“Parenting means teaching children to get their own Weet-Bix.”
― John Marsden, The Art of Growing Up

“once he sticks his tongue in my mouth his bacteria become part of my microbiome for literally the rest of my life. Like, his tongue will sort of always be in my mouth until I’m dead, and then his tongue microbes will eat my corpse.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“There’s a whole lot of people don’t seem to understand that you have to talk to a man in his own language before he’ll take you seriously.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

“There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there.”
― Douglas Adams