“He could not imagine what he and Sejanus had to discuss. Perhaps they’d found some mutual grievance — like how their families didn’t understand them — to whine about?”
Source: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Funny", he intoned funerally, "how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.”
Source: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts
“It is customary that no man cross the bridge to the tower of the betrothed, except your betrothed himself,” Christian explained.
Sig coughed, a few words escaping that sounded suspiciously like “which one?”
Source: A City of Whispers
“She does every little thing I like,’ he gushes.
Little does he know
he likes every little thing she does.”
Source: How to Love in Sanskrit
“The dog did a somersault like a tossed pancake”
Source: The Plague
“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.”
Source: Dinosaurs, Doubts & Albert Einswine
“I had a familiar.
“Seriously? Why didn’t you tell me?” I demanded. The pig snorted and gave me a deadpan look. Oh. Yeah.”
Source: Dinosaurs, Doubts & Albert Einswine
“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