‘... even elves has soft parts that don’t like no boot in ‘em.’ (SC)
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‘... strictly speaking, topiary is not actually illegal, although I rather suspect that one or two folk are going to be the first up against the hedge when the revolution comes.’ (ISWM)
‘Once a man gets a Feegle up his troosers, his time of trial and tribulation is only just beginning.’ (ISWM)
‘Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.’ (ISWM)
‘“Pretty please with sprinkles on top” is not a recognised method of interrogation!’ (MR)
We’re going to get cheesed.*
* Like creamed, but it goes on for a lot longer. (NW) What was the worst that could happen?
So many things, he thought as he set out again, that it would be hard to decide which one was the worst. (TT) ... although it was possible to live on figs you soon wished you didn't. (TT)
People were good at imagining hells, and some they occupied while they were alive. (CJ)
... there was no knowing where it would of end. How it would end was a bit more certain. It would probably end badly. (Dig)
A thought could be like a spear. You do not throw a spear at the widow, the orphan, the grieving ... (N)
A sleep full of dark dreams was no sleep at all, it was like a meal of ashes. (N)
Being inventive was all very well, but not when it stuck thorns into you. (DCC)
'... I really don't know where teachers go when they're dead, but I've got a horrible suspicion it’ll be full of sports masters.' (IT)
Freedom did, of course, include man's age-old right to starve to death. (IT)
... he suffered from pre-emptive karma. If it even looked as though something nice was going to happen to him in the near future something bad would happen right now. And it went on happening to him right through the part where toe good stuff should be happening, so that he never actually experienced it. (IT)
'I hate it when people are nice to me. It means something bad is going to happen.' (IT)
‘We Russians have saying: “First five hundred years are worst.” Cheers.’ (LM)
… he knew exactly how to make a short word like “suffer” turn into a very long experience. (SC)
‘… there’s four of us, after all.’
‘That just means something bad can happen four times …’ (JD) The trouble with gods was that if they didn’t like something they didn’t just drop hints … (S)
The Patrician’s personal guard was not known for its responsive approach to community policing, preferring to cut bits off instead. Among the things they took a dim view of was, well, basically, people being in the same universe. (S)
‘You’ve got to face it, all this stuff about golden boughs and the cycles of nature and stuff just boils down to sex and violence, usually at the same time.’ (LF)
She just looked the look of a wife who was putting up with her husband's funny little ways for which he would suffer in the boudoir later. (RS)
'… we did invent the deep-fried stoat. That must count for something.'
'How is that a good point?' said Arthur. 'Weel, it saves some other poor devil having tae do it. It's what ye might call a taste explosion; ye take a mouthful, taste it, and then there is an explosion.' (ISWM) |
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