“i am drinking sauvignon
while my housemate shags upstairs
and i will write poetry
before the night is through.”
Source: Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
“First coffee. You and I both know where you're concerned coffee keeps people alive. - Finley Salinger”
Source: The Ember Stone: Book One of the Ember Files
“It’s an improvement to her resting face, best described like she’s permanently smelling foulness.”
Source: Chimera and Curses: Book Two of The Ember Files
“Actually, there is a piece of advice I have for you.” He pointed at the platter. “Get rid of it. It smells like absolute arse in here.”
Source: The Butcher of Allasar
“And surely, whatever, in this its course of change, poetry may have lost in quality, is more than made up for by what it has gained in quantity. For in the first place it is far pleasanter to the tastes of a scientific generation, to understand how to make bad poetry than to wonder at good; and secondly, as the end of poetry is pleasure, that we should make it each for ourselves is the very utmost that we can desire, since it is a fact in which we all agree, that no man's verses please him so much as his own.”
Source: Every Man His Own Poet: Or The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book
“Poetry as practised by the latest masters, is the art of expressing what is too foolish, too profane, or too indecent to be expressed in any other way.”
Source: Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book
“Given a choice,' says Greenglass, 'I'd prefer to die thin.' 'Why? So it'll be easier on your pallbearers? … They got great rice pudding here.”
Source: St. Farb's day
“Happiness" describes moments, and it's never permanent.”
Source: Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1
“Thank you, sir,” I said. “I hope a whole family of starving scorpions nests in your fat ass,” I thought.”
Source: Visible Amazement
“Why do you fink the Flossy Mistress always used ter tell me, ‘Get out of here, kobold, lickety-spit!’?”
Source: Willow Moss & the Vanished Kingdom