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As I sat and read Susan Grafton's excellent A is for Alibi, I came across this gem:
"The only cleavage I got left, I sit on,"
I was mid sip on a cup of coffee as I read ( I shouldn't do that!) and I nearly covered the sofa with cofee.
Anyone else have any wonderful quotes they can remember like that?
Hugs
Sue
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You mean ...
... Sue Grafton, the builder, I suppose? :)
That'll learn you! Avoid wasting coffee and ruining sofas.
Robi
Not a TG story, but in a
Not a TG story, but in a Harry Potter fanfic story by Humantales called Neville Longbottom, Gryffindore Extraordinaire, a sweet story about Hermione's musings about the bravery of Neville:
I love the line "Harry's courage did everything but grab passers-by and yell, "Look; I'm brave!"
Hugs,
Kristy
I Love a Well-Turned Phrase. . .or Ankle
It makes me feels as if the author cares about me when I run across a phrase that obviously took a bit of thought. It's enjoyable to see a character named in the Dicken's tradition.
Like this morsel that introduces us to a villain named Ferris.
"He’s ferreting about, trying to learn a bit more about you."
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
A Perfect Spy
By John le Carre has this line-
"Draft Magnus for President" Bee purred, sitting up straight and pressing out her breasts as if somebody had offered her a chocolate. "Oh goody."
That paragraph makes me laugh 15 years after I first read it. Also I'm not sure what the funniest part of it is.
"Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie."- John le Carre
Daniel, author of maid, whore, bimbo, and sissy free TG fiction since 2000
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.- Oscar Levant
good quotes
"The assassin came in and ordered waffles" This was the first line in a book I read as kid. I honestly dont remember anything else about the book, not even the title or author, but that quote has stuck in my brain
It's from Ron Goulart -
It's from Ron Goulart - Hello, Lemuria, Hello
Link to a fax of the book is below.
http://www.docin.com/p-34755821.html
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May the Stars Light Your Path
Maid Joy
http://i-know-i-know-but.net/
This has got to be my all
This has got to be my all time favorite quote from any book.
The scene: The protagonist is sitting in a private audience room with the King and his counselors. The description of the room as the protagonist looks around and spots the bodyguards of the king (who are fanatically devoted to him). Put your drinks down.
"If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look, it's "danger", don't step in it!"
— Mercedes Lackey (The Eagle & the Nightingales)
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May the Stars Light Your Path
Maid Joy
http://i-know-i-know-but.net/
Joy, I absolutely love the
Joy,
I absolutely love the Bardic Voices series! I wish she would write more of them.
Hugs,
Kristy
This one's kinda lowbrow, but...
I forget which William Burroughs novel this is from, but a judge in some awful country is pronouncing sentance on a teenage "sodomite":
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"You will be taken to the public square where you will be hung from the neck until dead ..... dead ..... dead," he pronounced ominously, bringing the gavel down three times.
The kid shoots back: "Oh yeah? Well you can kiss my ass until it's red ..... red ...... red!"
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That's just pure defiance! Made me laugh pretty hard.
(but then Burroughs went off into one of his bizarre "erotic hanging" passages,
whatever that fixation of his was about. The parts of his stories that I tend to just skim past...).
~~~hugs, Laika
What borders on stupidity?
Canada and Mexico.
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An Angela Rasch Special
In commenting on a story of mine in which a fake Spiderman was ravaging his victim Jill came up with a line;
"All seemed lost until Peter Porker put something where you'd think his spider-sense would have told him not to."
The coffee sprayed from my nostrils!
Joanne