“Come now. Where is the woman who once braggingly picked a lock in Daevabad's library? I'd think you'd be delighted by the challenge."
"Have you an actual plan or just wild fantasies that will end with our deaths?”
Source: The Empire of Gold
“He smiled at us; we smiled at him. Three crocodiles on a muddy shore could not have smiled at each other more eloquently or with such gleaming teeth”
Source: The Hollow Boy
“writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise”
Source: Novelist as a Vocation
“Good, because if you said something to my
dad, I would tell him how cheesy you are with your pickup lines.” Theo mockingly presses his palms to his cheeks. “We finally reached the beach, my little whale.”
I glare at him. “That’s not at all how it went.”
Theo points across the kitchen. “Look! It’s sand—we’ve reached land!”
“Stop.”
“Lily, what the heck, our boat is wrecked!”
Source: It Starts with Us
“Oh what a pity it happens to be Davey's day for getting drunk. I long to tell him, he will be so much interested.”
Source: Love in a Cold Climate
“I hate Gucci. It's so expensive, but it's so ugly too, isn't it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.”
Source: The Secret History
“Water is bothersome in the boot, let alone in the stomach!”
Source: Tale of Tales – Part I: A Strange Bunch
“Michael fucking Jackson to you too.”
Source: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
“On the other hand, a New Yorker charged me with hero worship of Lee and more: "Over-emphasis upon the Christianity of the butcher in a human slaughter business by one who was a parasitic blueblood all his life." This one is filed under "Views of the War, Marxist.”
Source: The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts
“In August, 1956, a Swedish bank teller cheerfully changed a $500 Confederate banknote for an enterprising customer, at the same favorable rate of exchange commanded by Federal currency in that season. His mistake was discovered only when it was much too late.”
Source: The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts