“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
“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