Out of Context Quotes

[Dj]

Allison wrote: "My smol fox who thinks she is big and bitey but actually is like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZYxK..."

Adorable

[Michelle]

Allison wrote: "My smol fox who thinks she is big and bitey but actually is like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZYxK..."

Oh my gosh that's adorable!

[Anna]

I meant to personally only post silly/stupid quotes in this thread, but I also have to post this absolutely brilliant chapter title! XD I had to pause the book to laugh out loud, so literal lol!

"The Exile Formerly Known As Prince"

- The Book Eaters

[Dj]

83. A watched pot never boils. That is all you need to know about quantum physics.

[Anna]

Ryan, can you *please* stop butting into every book I read? I'd love to read one without any Ryans!

"And who the hell is this?”

He had pulled up in front of Rebecca’s flat. A car was parked on the pavement right in front of the gate. A flashy hatchback with mag wheels and a bumper sticker that read, “Report my driving? Dial 1-800 - EAT-SHIT.”

Rebecca sighed.

“That’s Ryan."

- The Broken Path

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

What's painful about that quote is the mix of US English and UK English. Flat, pavement, flashy hatchback are all so English, but then it has a US telephone number on a bumper sticker. Not that bumper stickers are popular in the UK. If we have a witty message on a car over here it's usually stuck on the inside of the window or written in the encrusted dirt.

[Anna]

It's a South African author, I have no idea what flavo(u)r of English they tend to use?

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

“I could kill you,” said Altan, muttering the death threat like a love song...

- The Dragon Republic

[Anna]

OK, I educated myself (thanks preview of first google result) and SA is UK English. So I guess this Ryan got the bumper sticker as a gift from an American friend? :)

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

I'm pretty sure South Africa has its own interpretation of English... That's just a failure of research or artistic freedom at the expense of accuracy.

It's funny how so small a thing can bother me.

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

(I say that based solely on listening to Trevor Noah)

[Anna]

You mean Masha didn't stalk you properly? :D

[Jemppu]

Ryan wrote: "(I say that based solely on listening to Trevor Noah)"

I can appreciate this, as a member of Trevor-Noah-pronouncing-"years" fan club.

[Anna]

Or are you just saying that *your* flashy hatchback doesn't have a bumper sticker, it has eat shit written in the dirty window? I can see how that inaccuracy would annoy you!

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

We write things like 'I wish my other half was as filthy as this car' in the dirt.

[Anna]

Aaaannnd that's how you lose fingers?

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

You lose more than your fingers if the vehicle isn't parked.

[Anna]

I knew I shouldn't have posted that Ryan quote before I finished the book. Here are a couple more.

"Did I tell you how that Ryan guy nearly punched me the other day when I tried to stop him bullying one of the trolley people?"

"Ryan’s been watching you, in case you didn't know."

"Look. I know Ryan can get a bit— carried away and all. He’s just keen, you know? He spent all night following you guys around and this morning he was acting like he had ants up his arse."

"Ryan can get crazy sometimes. Just don’t get on his wrong side, okay? I don’t want him getting into trouble again."

- The Broken Path

Now, for the love of dog, can I please read a couple of books without any Ryans?!

[Cheryl]

Hah!

[CBRetriever]

Anna wrote: "Ryan, can you *please* stop butting into every book I read? I'd love to read one without any Ryans!

"And who the hell is this?”

He had pulled up in front of Rebecca’s flat. A car was parked on th..."

try an Anthony Ryan book - I don't think he's pretentious enough to name a character after himself...

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

You obviously haven't had much experience with the Ryan's of this world. We're insufferable.

[Anna]

Truth from the mouths of babes and Ryans.

[Dj]

Ryan wrote: "You obviously haven't had much experience with the Ryan's of this world. We're insufferable."

I will make a note of that for future reference. LOL

[Anna]

"An inescapable wave of memories and awful, helpless humanness broke through her wild foxness like a dam shattering."

- The Raven Heir

[Dj]

The author of this book is an internet cartoonist, not a health or safety expert. He likes it when things catch fire or explode, which means he does not have your best interests in mind. The publisher and the author disclaim responsibility for any adverse effects resulting, directly or indirectly, from information contained in this book.

I like ridiculous questions because nobody is expected to know the answer, which means it’s okay to be confused.

What would happen if the Solar System was filled with soup out to Jupiter?

[Raucous]

Dj wrote: "The author of this book is an internet cartoonist, not a health or safety expert. He likes it when things catch fire or explode, which means he does not have your best interests in mind..."

And you've barely made it out of the introduction. "Weird and Worrying."

[Dj]

Raucous wrote: "Dj wrote: "The author of this book is an internet cartoonist, not a health or safety expert. He likes it when things catch fire or explode, which means he does not have your best interests in mind...."

Not for me. This is the second book by this author I am reading. And they both have fantastic things that you would never expect in a normal book. He answers really off-the-wall questions as if they were serious.
My favorite so far is: What would happen if you hit a baseball traveling at 90 Percent light speed?

[Beth]

"'... I like you much, but not enough to eat you unnecessarily.'"

[Nadine in California]

Beth wrote: ""'... I like you much, but not enough to eat you unnecessarily.'""

An intellectual zombie in a complicated relationship ? ;)

[Dj]

Beth wrote: ""'... I like you much, but not enough to eat you unnecessarily.'""

Sounds like a Dragon. LOL

[Beth]

@ Nadine & Dj
Haha both great suggestions! It's actually from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, just a manservant talking to a fellow passenger. The nineteenth century was weird 😂

[Dj]

Beth wrote: "@ Nadine & Dj
Haha both great suggestions! It's actually from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, just a manservant talking to a fellow passenger. The nineteenth century was weird 😂"

Hmm, I am reading that one now and don't recall the line. It is a great line though and I can imagine where it came up. LOL.

[Dj]

"Just as it was three years ago," roared the millionaire, with an air of
desperation. "It's exactly the same coup. Oh, what a catastrophe! What a
catastrophe!"
He made as if to tear out his hair; then, remembering its scantiness, refrained.

[Cheryl]

Dj wrote: ""Just as it was three years ago," roared the millionaire, with an air of
desperation. "It's exactly the same coup. Oh, what a catastrophe! What a
catastrophe!"
He made as if to tear out his hair; t..."

Maybe I want to read this one? I could use a little of that kind of humor....

[Dj]

Cheryl wrote: "Dj wrote: ""Just as it was three years ago," roared the millionaire, with an air of
desperation. "It's exactly the same coup. Oh, what a catastrophe! What a
catastrophe!"
He made as if to tear out ..."

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

[Dj]

Wouldn’t it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol?



I drink to make other people interesting.

[Anna]

I spent a *lot* of time yesterday culling these quotes, and I'm still left with *so many* ! XD So I'm going to put the majority behind spoiler tags, both because there are so many, and in case someone wants to read this book and doesn't want any spoilerish info. I've bolded my favorites :)


Allison the Puppy Killer is back—and dead. Is this karma or overkill?

- Aunty Lee's Chilled Revenge


CW: mentions of reasons why Allison has the above moniker

(view spoiler)[“This Allison you are all waiting for is the bloody woman you wish you had killed like a dog?”

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“Allison refused to tell us who had taken Lola. We were outside her gate saying all we needed was a phone number or an address. But Allison started shouting at us for harassing her. She even called the police and said she was being attacked! But when the police came we showed them a copy of the agreement Allison had signed and they also asked her where the dog was. So then Allison started shouting and swearing at them, and she even slapped herself and said she would report them for police brutality. It was like she was crazy! By then quite a few neighbors had come out to see what the shouting was all about, and Allison’s husband came home... and then Allison finally admitted she had lied. The puppy was not with a friend—it was dead.”

--

“And there were photos of Allison shouting at the police and giving them the finger.”

--

“The story went viral online with about fifty thousand comments, most of them telling Allison that if she hated Singapore so much she should leave and stop killing our dogs.”

--

Allison would have preferred a decent hotel with standards of cleanliness to live up to, even if she didn’t have the means to pay for it.

--

“I don’t want to go to some creepy morgue and look at poor Allison’s body.”

--

“She put her lies about Allison online—all absurd, ridiculous slander—and it even got into the papers back home, and our ma was calling her and saying, ‘What have you done? Why are you killing people’s pets again?’”

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“Allison was always the leader, the one with the ideas and the energy. She was always going out and doing things.”

--


What a terrible thing to happen to somebody in an unfamiliar place! Of course it must have been far worse for Allison, who had been killed.

--

The Animal ReHomers are the only people who had any reason to attack Allison. Allison was filing charges against them because their campaign of cyberbullying and harassment gave her a nervous breakdown and destroyed her marriage. Her ex-husband was working with them to destroy her so that he won’t have to pay alimony.

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“Haven’t you heard anything I said? I’m not responsible for Allison. I signed your identification papers but I’m not going to sign for anything else. I can’t make any decisions about her. You have to get that husband of hers to decide. That’s what she would have wanted. Allison wouldn’t want me to decide anything. She would have left it to him. Allison always let him take care of everything. That’s how we were brought up. Leave it to the man to take care of everything.”

--

“And of course—poor Allison. I mean, I can’t say I liked her, but nobody deserves to die like that... Still, I’m not sorry her stupid lawsuit is off.”

--

Though [she] had met Allison in person only a few times, she knew how vindictive the woman had been.

--

Dreadful as it was, Allison’s murder actually made things much easier

--

“But you’ve got to understand the pressure I’m under. You don’t know what the last few years with Allison were like and then all this. I wish she hadn’t dragged Singapore into it. It’s almost as though this is one of her manipulations.”

--

“[She] said Allison was the kind of person that would poison herself to show you how bad your food is.”

--

“Could that Allison woman have set this up? Maybe she found out she was dying of incurable cancer or something, so she came back and killed herself in such a way that the Animal ReHomers would be blamed.”

--

“That puppy killer business must have been a terrible experience for Allison and her whole family.”

--

“The vet and the clinic also got some hate mail, but Allison got it the worst.”

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“I think Allison was feeling insecure and trying to make herself feel better by belittling locals.”

--

She wasn’t sorry that Allison was dead. It would distract everybody for a while, and at least it hadn’t happened to a nicer person.

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“After Allison accused us of harassment and libel and trespassing, the police set up a mediation meeting to try to calm everyone down. It didn’t work, of course.”

--

“Allison refused to back down and everything just dragged on and on.”

--

“Allison had trouble letting things go sometimes.”

--

“Hey, enough talk about Allison”

--

“Allison liked things to be nice. She always wanted everything to be perfect. If anything wasn’t perfect she would throw it out.”

--

“My bosses laughed about it at first and told me to shut up and lie low. They said it would blow over. Boy, were they wrong. Allison couldn’t shut up. She defended herself, which only fanned the flames. She got very angry with me for not being more upset; in fact she accused me of being behind the attacks, of being in league with the web vigilantes. She wasn’t well. That was all part of her breakdown; I can totally see that now. She thought everybody was against her.”

--

“Allison had locked the children up in one of the bedrooms and was trying to set the house on fire.”

--

“When I got back Allison was in the kitchen trying to start up a fire there as well. Luckily we’re not on gas or she would have Sylvia Plath’ed them. I tell you, reading poetry doesn’t do anybody any good. It just makes the crazy ones crazier.”

--

It was difficult to judge people who survived great natural disasters, and Allison certainly sounded like a great natural disaster.

--

Allison might be dead, but her hatred still echoed.

--

“I did it for you, for us. Because I wanted our life together to be free from all Allison’s craziness.”

--

“You’re just like Allison—you’re worse! Allison killed animals but not people.”

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“Allison had always thought of herself as a super organizer and controller, and it was a shock for her to discover she couldn’t control what people thought of her. Like many insecure people she was a big bully in small ways—taking it out on the people and animals around her.”

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“Allison was fine until the Internet explosion against her. There may always have been that side to her personality, but if not for the wave of Internet hatred, it might never have surfaced.”

--

“Because people say revenge is best served cold,” Aunty Lee explained. “Same with jelly. First must be boiled very hot until the gelatin melts, like Allison’s hot anger. But having hot anger inside for so long made her go a bit crazy.”
(hide spoiler)]

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

You're lucky I've made peace with Dog and have put this life of spite and gelatinous rage behind me!

[Anna]

I was expecting echoes of your hatred and/or your hot anger.

[Anna]

Also, did you check with your husband that it's OK for you to be posting here? :P

[Michelle]

These are hysterical!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Yeah, he's actually posting these, hi! <3

[Anna]

“Nope.” Allison popped the bubble she’d created.

Allison’s nose wrinkled as it did when she was on the track of something intriguing.

Clever, devious Allison.

Allison tsked at her for the derogatory phrase.

Allison added to the pessimism with her own insight.

For Allison to be alerted suggested a different sort of issue.

“What’s got you rattled, Allison?”

Allison’s silence was probably due to shock.

“I think I’m hyperventilating,” Allison panted.

Allison’s concerns were valid.

- Astray


And here is a little story for you! :)


Allison returned from her meeting with the [mods] in a foul mood.

“[Anna],” Allison all but spat the name of her [former SF] counterpart, “says [Ryan] is on-station, but lurking in his scout ship. He hasn’t been seen in a couple of days. She claims she doesn’t know why he’s here.”

--

[Ryan] risked Allison’s ire. “Does [Anna] agree with you?”

Allison snarled. “No.”

He waited.

Allison pinched her ear. “Rumblings of discontent. The [mod books] aren’t popular on the [polls].”

“What does that really mean? [SFFBC] is the biggest settlement along the [Goodreads] Line, and it’s not large enough to support itself.”

The [mod]’s anger evaporated. She gave her ear an extra hard tug, lengthening the lobe. “The [club] could align itself with someone else. We recently mapped a route through the [Discord] Range to [StoryGraph] space.”

“It’s not one the average [mod] would want to risk.”

Allison shrugged disagreement. “It would depend on the incentive. The other option is meridianam-ward. The [club] could align with [Goodreads].”

[Ryan] suppressed his knee-jerk rejection of the idea. Loyalty mattered. But for loyalty to hold long-term, it was better if it went both ways. Through the twelve year war, [SFFBC] had received less and less support from [Goodreads]. But he doubted [Goodreads] had lessened the [club]’s tax bill. “[Goodreads] will [fuck things up] here, again.”

“Some [new features] are already doing so.” Allison flicked the tips of her fingernails against one another, fidgeting in thought. “[Anna]’s [spreadsheet] of where she thinks we should lay the mines may be more informative than I initially thought.”

A [spreadsheet] and a plan could tell them a whole heap of things [Anna] wasn’t permitted to literally tell them.

[Ryan] slowly put his suspicions into words, for Allison to confirm them. “It’s not just ["improvements"] we’re meant to block with mines. If the first are deployed meridianam of the [club], then the idea is to block traffic with [Goodreads].”

“Despite the claims of mutually beneficial trade written into the peace accord.” Allison smiled a twisted, defeated smile. “Obviously, it would be [SFFBC] that blocked harmonious relations with [Goodreads]. We’re already the bad guys in that story.”

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

lol these books are a tell all

[Raucous]

Wow. I can't wait to see how this one ends.

[Dj]

Magicians have to be careful when they look into the Duat. Best-case scenario, you’ll get mildly nauseous. Worst-case scenario, your brain will explode.



That doesn't seem like a very wide set of options.

[Dj]

I’m not sure that the picture of the wide-eyed zombie girl biting out the brains of senior douchebag James Page is part of Sam’s homework, but if it is, his physics teacher is awesome.

[Anna]

XD

[Dj]

Still, running 26 miles is never an easy feat. Even when emboldened by liquid courage, it’s best to channel the wisdom found on a sign once seen along the course: “Pain is just the French word for bread.”

[CBRetriever]

Dj wrote: "Still, running 26 miles is never an easy feat. Even when emboldened by liquid courage, it’s best to channel the wisdom found on a sign once seen along the course: “Pain is just the French word for ..."

and even better if it's pain au chocolat (chocolate croissant)