Odd

“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

“He saw virus particles shaped like snakes, in negative images. They were white cobras tangled among themselves, like the hair of Medusa. They were the face of nature herself, the obscene goddess revealed naked. This life form thing was breathtakingly beautiful. As he stared at it, he found himself being pulled out of the human world into a world where moral boundaries blur and finally dissolve completely. He was lost in wonder and admiration, even though he knew that he was the prey. (149)”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

“Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Progress just means bad things happen faster.”
― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad