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  • #1
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #2
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #3
    Jim  Butcher
    “Are you always a smartass?'

    Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
    Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Gail Carriger
    “You are about as covert as a sledgehammer.”
    Gail Carriger, Soulless

  • #7
    Gail Carriger
    “I kissed her," he explained, aggrieved.

    "Mmm, yes, I had the dubious pleasure of witnessing that, ah-hem, overly public occurrence." Lyall sharpened his pen nib, using a small copper blade that ejected from the end of his glassicals.

    "Well! Why hasn't she done anything about it?" the Alpha wanted to know.

    "You mean like whack you upside the noggin with that deadly parasol of hers? I would be cautious in that area if I were you.”
    Gail Carriger, Soulless

  • #8
    Gail Carriger
    “Goodness gracious me,' exclaimed Alexia, 'what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair of binoculars and some opera glasses. What on earth are they called, binocticals, spectoculars?”
    Gail Carriger, Soulless
    tags: humor

  • #9
    Gail Carriger
    “Please, Lord Maccon, use one of the cups. My delicate sensibilities.”
    The earl actually snorted.
    “My dear Miss Tarabotti, if you possessed any such things, you certainly have never shown them to me.”
    Gail Carriger, Soulless

  • #10
    Gail Carriger
    “My father,” she admitted, “was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured.” She paused. “Though he did die.”
    Gail Carriger, Soulless

  • #11
    Gail Carriger
    “Hello, princess,” said Lord Maccon to the vampire.
    “Got yourself into quite a pickle this time, didn't you?”
    Lord Akeldama looked him up and down. “My sweet young naked boy, you are hardly one to talk. Not that I mind, of course.”
    Gail Carriger, Soulless

  • #12
    Gail Carriger
    “What if I arrange to be around Lord Akeldama during the full moon?”
    The earl looked daggers.
    “I am certain he would be extremely helpful in a fight. He could ruthlessly flatter all your attackers into abject submission.”
    Gail Carriger, Soulless

  • #13
    Gail Carriger
    “She would have colored gracefully with embarrassment had she not possessed the complexion of one of those “heathen Italians,” as her mother said, who never colored, gracefully or otherwise. (Convincing her mother that Christianity had, to all intents and purposes, originated with the Italians, thus making them the exact opposite of heathen, was a waste of time and breath.)”
    gail carriger, Soulless

  • #14
    Wisława Szymborska
    “The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.
    Scruples are alien to the black panther.
    Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of their actions.
    The rattlesnake approves of himself without reservations.

    The self-critical jackal does not exist.
    The locust, alligator, trichina, horsefly
    live as they live and are glad of it.

    The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilos
    but in other respects it is light.

    There is nothing more animal-like
    than a clear conscience
    on the third planet of the Sun.”
    Wislawa Szymborska

  • #15
    Nicholas Sparks
    “How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

  • #16
    Gail Carson Levine
    “A library is infinity under a roof.”
    Gail Carson Levine

  • #17
    Sarah J. Maas
    “To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
    Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury



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