Out of Context Quotes

[Michelle]

Brett, you certainly can come up with some good ones!

[Dj]

Brett wrote: ""Just as he was getting into position, she stuck her fang right through the top of his body.""

Not sure of the book, but I hope that is a big snake doing that fang sticking.

[Brett]

I'm reading a nonfiction about female animals called Bitch (Lucy Cooke). There is so much material that it almost feels like cheating. @Dj, nope, spider. Guy was trying to get a critically endangered species to reproduce. He succeeded despite the death (the male was determined.)

Today's:

"Witnessing a pair of wrinkly pink penises savage each other to death with long yellow teeth is disturbing in many ways."

[Michelle]

LOL!!!

[Dj]

Brett wrote: "I'm reading a nonfiction about female animals called Bitch (Lucy Cooke). There is so much material that it almost feels like cheating. @Dj, nope, spider. Guy was trying to get a critically endanger..."

I would have to agree with that last. And I have never seen anything even remotely like that. Now I have to go get some bleach to clean out my mind's eye.

[Brett]

"I don't know what to apologize for," I say. "Cutting off your head or hesitating so long to do it."

[Sarah]

Brett wrote: ""I don't know what to apologize for," I say. "Cutting off your head or hesitating so long to do it.""

That's a good one - reminds me of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

[Dj]

Brett wrote: ""I don't know what to apologize for," I say. "Cutting off your head or hesitating so long to do it.""

How to win friends and influence people?

[Brett]

Spoilers: it's from The Queen of Nothing.

[max (sad girl autumn version)]

Honestly, there just aren’t that many good reasons for the average homeowner to keep jars of human teeth lying around.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

o.O

[Dj]

Max wrote: "Honestly, there just aren’t that many good reasons for the average homeowner to keep jars of human teeth lying around."

I am going to go with, Home Dental Care made easy

[jaii ♡ (selwyn's version ♡ )]

"Mufasa just didn't deserve to die! Okay?"

[Brett]

"What a relief to know that the world was supposed to make sense, and that if it didn't, you would one day be justly compensated."

[Dj]

Brett wrote: ""What a relief to know that the world was supposed to make sense, and that if it didn't, you would one day be justly compensated.""

One of the Witcher books

[Brett]

"One of the Witcher books"

Poppy War trilogy (Dragon Republic).

[Brett]

"______ was somewhat wary of gambling her life on the designs of a boy whose greatest passion was watching things explode, but she supposed at this point she had very few options."

[Dj]

Brett wrote: ""______ was somewhat wary of gambling her life on the designs of a boy whose greatest passion was watching things explode, but she supposed at this point she had very few options.""


I didn't realize my sister's autobiography was out yet. I guess I will have to give it a look. LOL

[Michelle]

Dj! LOL!

[Brett]

Hard not to admire a woman who's not afraid to let out a good snort.

[Brett]

"It took a tremendous effort for me not to rip his arm off, and I'd like that noted for the record, please."

[CBRetriever]

I quite liked this one:

I'd turn that two-legged tick into a bloated pus-filled pimple and then pop him

written about an angsty teenager in Michael J. Sullivan' Legends of Empire series (book 3 or 4)

[Melanie, the neutral party]

"Obviously, the orangutan mafia is still hard at work behind the scenes but they have long since learned to not get their own hands dirty. The network of cats still schemes however they too control centuries ago so now-a-days it is more a social club. And I do not trust sparrows." ~The Case of the Damaged Detective

[Brett]

And my TBR increases anew...

[Brett]

"He got plucky," ____ said. "I turned him to mincemeat and sent him back to ______ in a dumpling basket."

_____ arched an eyebrow. "Darling, fucking *what*?"

[Brett]

"In March 1863, a group of Confederate soldiers put on an all-male burlesque show. One of the numbers featured a man, totally nude."

[Brett]

"Of the many times I had been shot, a depressingly large percentage had come from clients who were trying to "help" me.

[Raucous]

Brett wrote: ""Of the many times I had been shot, a depressingly large percentage had come from clients who were trying to "help" me."

Murderbot? If not it should be.

[Brett]

Yes, Network Effect.

[Brett]

"He, Captain John Smart, did then and there piss upon the food and dishes there spread out."

[Bnz]

Brett wrote: ""He, Captain John Smart, did then and there piss upon the food and dishes there spread out.""

I guess that googling is cheating, but since I found this in what appears to be an actual historic document, and not a literary immitation thereof, perhaps I may be excused.

How on Earth have you found this ?!?

[Brett]

It's in a little gem called The Stories the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex In the Civil War. I found it in a used book store at random. The quote is from a court martial, in the chapter on conduct unbecoming of officers.

[Michelle]

That certainly was unbecoming!!

[Brett]

*Story*, not Stories, btw. Author Thomas P. Lowry, MD.

[Brett]

"In the city of Mobile, Alabama, it's against the law to throw plastic confetti, but that doesn't mean plastic confetti doesn't exist or that people don't use it."

[Brett]

"He could talk a line of silk-spun bullshit and he could write, both aided by drink."

[Anna]

“They must’ve been librarians,” said Valley, pointing at the foxes.

- The Golden Frog Games

[Kaladin]

"Courage, real bravery, is being afraid and doing what you need to do anyway."

[Brett]

"The gunner pissed his pants during a mission, and the urine froze his butt to the ball turret."

[Brett]

"And in case you're wondering at my shape; my tits are made of glass and swing out, too. So do the nipples."

[Brett]

"They ought not to be names of a frivolous character, such as 'Bunnyhug', 'Billingsgate', 'Aperitif', and 'Ballyhoo'."

[Michelle]

"It was amazing how a bucket of pee could knock the thees and thous out of a man."

[Brett]

"What a night - dark and wet, with just the sort of sea that makes the old tub wallow like a lovesick hippopotamus."

[Nadine in California]

Ok, this is not an out-of-context book quote, but the title of this tag on my new Chinese-made sweat pants is too charming not to share:

"WASH AWAY DIRT THE ELUCIDATION"

[Brett]

"He was found inert, his hands still gripping the throat of one of his victims."

[Brett]

"Incidentally, there's a psycho in the shed."

[Michelle]

"Matthew, in contrast, realized he was as dangerous-looking as a sugar cookie..."

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Nadine in California wrote: "Ok, this is not an out-of-context book quote, but the title of this tag on my new Chinese-made sweat pants is too charming not to share:

"WASH AWAY DIRT THE ELUCIDATION""

hahaha


These are good ones y'all

[Sarah]

"I am dumb enough to walk around without a blade of any sort and also,” he said with a hint of ponderous regret, “I am entirely fictional."

[Beth]

@ Sarah - Is that from one of Scott Lynch's books?