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"Getting bored with the repetitive stories of religious loonies." — Dec 31, 2025 10:43AM
"Getting bored with the repetitive stories of religious loonies." — Dec 31, 2025 10:43AM
“I sighed and went back to my book, in which Morgoth nicked the eponymous jewels and had away with them back to Angbad. Sorry mate, I thought, not my jurisdiction. Did you have them insured? Whereupon Fëanor gets a crime number and a leaflet about being on guard against theft and the wiles of the personification of evil.”
― Lies Sleeping
― Lies Sleeping
“Americans, who intellectually knew the rest of the world existed but didn’t really believe it.”
― False Value
― False Value
“So he bent down, put his head into the hole, and called out: “Is anybody at home?” There was a sudden scuffling noise from inside the hole, and then silence. “What I said was, ‘Is anybody at home?’” called out Pooh very loudly. “No!” said a voice; and then added, “you needn’t shout so loud. I heard you quite well the first time.” “Bother!” said Pooh. “Isn’t there anybody here at all?” “Nobody.” Winnie-the-Pooh took his head out of the hole, and thought for a little, and he thought to himself, “There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said ‘Nobody.’” So he put his head back in the hole, and said: “Hallo, Rabbit, isn’t that you?” “No,” said Rabbit, in a different sort of voice this time. “But isn’t that Rabbit’s voice?” “I don’t think so,” said Rabbit. “It isn’t meant to be.”
― Winnie the Pooh
― Winnie the Pooh
“CO19, the Met’s firearms unit, whose unofficial motto is, “Guns don’t kill people, we kill people with guns.”
― Whispers Under Ground
― Whispers Under Ground
“And what if it were only a story?” said Mrs. May quickly, “so long as it was a good story? Keep your sense of wonder, child, and don’t be so literal. Anything we haven’t experienced for ourselves sounds like a story. All we can ever do is sift the evidence.”
― The Borrowers
― The Borrowers
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