Staying awake in the winter requires considerable pantry, a lot of luck, warm clothes, and several dozen good books.
Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.
Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.
Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are generally disappointed when they figure it out.
Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstances.
Just because of an unusual genetic abnormality, Hollywood thinks it can portray us as dysfunctional social pariahs. Ask yourself this: Have you ever been, or know anyone who has ever been, a victim of albino crime?” The protest follows hot on the heels of last week’s demonstrations when Colombians and men with ponytails complained of being unrelentingly portrayed as drug dealers. – Extract from The Mole, July 31, 2003.
I’m always surprised that you all don’t take more interest in other creatures. It’s like living on a street and not knowing your next-door neighbor. If I were human, I’d start investing in a little kindness. When the arthropods rule the planet, all those lobster dishes and crab sticks could well be a cause of some regret.
Take no heed of her,” explained Jones apologetically. “She reads a lot of books.
The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.
The only thing you really get to figure out after a lifetime of study is that there’s more stuff to figure out. Frustrating and enlightening at the same time.
In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.
Believe me, you’re going to have to do much worse than this – in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer – and at your hands.
To me, grass is simply a transitional phase for turning sunlight into milk.
I was glad to see I had only witnessed Dad’s death and not the end of his life, as the two I learned are barely related at all.
I kicked off my shoes and flopped on the sofa next to Gran, who had fallen asleep over a sock she was knitting. It was already a good twelve feet long because, she said, she had “yet to build up enough courage to turn the heel.
He jerked a thumb in the direction of the baby on the stretcher, who had put his fingers in his mouth and stopped yelling. ‘That was the driver. Before the accident he was thirty-one. By the time we got here he was eight – in a few hours he’ll be nothing more than a damp patch on the blanket.
7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.
But since anagram-related clues are now inadmissible as evidence, we sent the pork pie off for DNA analysis and managed to pinpoint the pie shop where it was purchased.
We require only a grenade launcher, six pounds of industrial-strength licorice, two spells of Class VIII complexity, a shipping container, a side of bacon, an automobile, several homing snails, a ladder, and two people to act as bait.
You’re a liability and a wild card and trouble seems to follow you like a homesick spaniel.