“Tony, what in the world did you get engaged to that fellow for?"
"I can't make out. It's all most odd, and I'm inclined to think I must have been slightly deranged when I did it.”
Source: Death in the Stocks
“Deep [Space] Travel is a serious business. Name one risk and how you plan to deal with the emotional repercussions of that."
"Well..." Matter tapped a finer against their lip in an exaggerated manner. "We could all be eaten by Space Whales! [...] I've had a run in with the beasts before, they suck all the marrow out of your bones and this is why my medi-file-- which is what you keep glancing at on that datapad-- labels me as having an unspecified chronic condition."
Dr Brruuh TeaYaBin's voice came out flat. "You have chronic pain because a galactic whale at your bone marrow?”
Source: Unlicensed Delivery
“So, Prince Farron, where do we start?”
“Just Farron, please.” He pulls me back into the main foyer of the library. “I’m not much of a prince these days. Hard to rule your realm when you turn into a slobbering beast each night.”
Source: Bonded by Thorns
“La victoria moral puede ser alcanzada por cualquiera al que el adversario le haya partido la cara. Ya Tolstoi manifestó en su día que la victoria moral es algo tremendamente claro. Masaryk alaba también la victoria moral, pero el hecho es que ni Tolstoi ni Masaryk recibieron en su vida una paliza.”
Source: Storia del Partito del progresso moderato nei limiti della legge
“Mrs.Gregory from U.S. History is one of the chaperones. She’s going around, trying to keep girls from grinding on their dates. She might as well try to keep the moon from rising.”
Source: Prom Nights from Hell
“Книги - это для тех, кто не находит себя в жизни. Дело делать - кишка тонка, вот и читают.”
Source: The Great Pursuit
“Blowing out a sigh, I stood. I could totally do this. I’d embrace the woodsy life and return to civilization as a changed person. Or you might die. I shushed the inner voice that wanted a nap and a bag of snacks”
Source: Dinosaurs, Doubts & Albert Einswine
“You can’t unrub the lamp and cram the genie back inside.”
Source: Dinosaurs, Doubts & Albert Einswine
“I have always admired your facility for repartee, my lady. Oftentimes someone will say something to me, and later I will think up the perfect riposte—so perfect the hearer could not help but wilt, and be ashamed that they had set themselves up to receive it—but by that point it is often hours after the fact and I am lying in my bed.”
Source: Harrow the Ninth
“Baby, you could be Jesus in drag but if you're brown they're sure you're selling.”
Source: To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography