George Reilly

“That’s the thing about a good porter”–and he shrugged, or shook his head and sounded so rueful and sort of growly as he said, “Deals with all your baggage.”
― Iain Banks, The Quarry

“I’m sweating like a glassblower’s arse.”
― Alan Parks, Bobby March Will Live Forever

“The standard modern measurement for inebriation is the Ose system. This has been considerably developed over the years, but the common medical consensus currently has jocose, verbose, morose, bellicose, lachrymose, comatose, adios.

This is a workable but incomplete system, as it fails to take in otiose (meaning impractical) which comes just after jocose. Nor does it have grandiose preceding bellicose. And how they managed to miss out globose (amorphous or formless) before comatose is beyond me.”
― Mark Forsyth, The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

“If you can make them blush, they think you’re a hard-ass,” she said. “My husband calls it the mask.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War