Dinner is over. Her husband has gone to the toilet.Richard Brautigan
"Restaurant", Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt
Taunted by Art Garfunkel's reading list, I decided to keep my own. Then I read Nick Hornby's The Polysyllabic Spree.
Dinner is over. Her husband has gone to the toilet.Richard Brautigan
Since I was around five, when my mom gave me the Sunday funnies, some paper, and some crayons.Mike Maihack via Philip Amara
Some lived in urban settings, some in rural.Ellen Petry Leanse
Those science quizzes drove me crazy.Isaac Asimov
"None of that," Rose replied. "Just give me the feather and the pot of oil."Marjane Satrapi
I had this feeling like, oh, everyone wants to be held.Nagata Kabi
"I saw Mr le Blanc today the Solicitor named," Conroy wrote to General Wetherall from Kensington Palace on the 3rd February 1820, "and as conversation put him in possession of many particulars, until we meet I can do no more."Katherine Hudson
Taking on too many tasks not only throws off our balance, but it can lead to being less productive.Anna Brones
To them the vastness of the world outside, the never-ending Sky, the lack of a boundary of any sort at all, would be sodden terror.Clifford D. Simak
Shy and even timid though authors had generally seemed to be when she had met them individually, taken together they were loud, gossipy and, though they laughed a good deal, not, so far as she could tell, particularly funny.Alan Bennett
Truzenzuzex ignored the pun and made the thranx equivalent of a shrug.Alan Dean Foster
The King's recent brush with eternity had, after all, demonstrated just how close Edward's little girl might be to the throne.Alison Plowden
Most interestingly, Sarek had returned, by himself.James Blish
Yet it was precisely this, the -- to me -- unknown side of him, that made me recognize him.Alan Judd
She shouldn't have to see that after what she's been through.Pete Wallis & Thalia Wallis
If you're trying to get significant others on board with new habits but they're resistant to the cause, forcing them into it is usually futile.Fay Wolf
Then, when I was a teenager, for reasons I'm not sure of, I became stridently opposed to the idea of drinking ...John Porcellino
They needed the jobs, no matter how pointless the work might be, and so were reminiscent of people during the Great Depression of the 1930s, who celebrated when they got any kind of work at all.Kurt Vonnegut
Giving offense in the cause of sexual licence was never Carolyn's calling.Philip Roth
It is one of the most versatile food items in the Swedish pantry, and can last for up to a year if properly stored.Lola Akinmade Åkerström
Mostly, though, you should talk to them because they are probably harboring secret noveling urges as well.Chris Baty
Don't be shy...we don't bite--you'll like bein' popular...Kia Asamiya via Max Allan Collins
But after he had stopped the motor, Hoyt did not get out; he remained where he was as if listening.Andre Norton
We sat with different people at meals, and when our dining companions discovered I was a writer they always asked, "Are you going to write about this cruise?"Audrey Niffenegger
Did you have a good session at the dojo?Philip Pullman
Earlier, a heat wave had brutalized the city, killing seventeen people (including a man named Christ) and neatly eviscerating Chicago's boast to Congress that the city possessed the charming summer climate "cool and delicious," the Tribune had said of a vacation resort.Erik Larson
"If he didn't find it himself, somebody pointed it out to him."Laura Creedle
Des looked around at the adjacent booths to make sure he had not missed Alice elsewhere.Whit Stillman
TWO ARMORED MEN: You are allowed to speak to her.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Calm down ... let me have a look ... is it your sweetheart?Xavier Coste
I lost count after the first seventy years or so.Nick Tapalansky
See you soon aboard the Challenger, Donovan, 35,000 feet below the surface!Christophe Bec
And what was more, he'd been killed in a way that was so unusual that I'd never even heard about it before.Sergei Lukyanenko
When you do, then the white pedestals become the ground.Richard D. Zakia and David A. Page
"I ask and ask again:Alain de Botton
"You went to sleep at ...
"You got up at ..."
Basil let go of the device, the lightness of which astounded Xuan.Paul A. Bergin
But I felt like a guy myself when I was coming on to him.Julie Maroh
If a guy like Moke ever gave you that look or tried to lean on you various ways, everybody was watching and you better back him off or else sew up your asshole because if you gave the guy the first inch he'd take the rest any time he wanted.Elmore Leonard
"Of course, now you put it that way, I see."C.S. Lewis
"They're going to set fire to us!"John Hersey
"He's coming up," he said.Ernest Hemingway
"Just be bloody careful, you can't trust them an inch."Antony Johnston
"Eh, good people, I'll make my bed under the bench, wrap myself in my tail, and somehow spend the night.""How The Little Fox Went After Chaff", Ukrainian Folk Tales
Goddesses don't catch cold!Jerome Charyn
All I wanted to do was sleep.Benoît Peeters
"Let's play a game instead."Ivan Turgenev
"Maybe he's just a sad old guy who loves what he loves."Rebecca Podos
Of all of them, Kaycee was the only one who ever showed me pity.Krysten Ritter
Operating under the guidance of Professor Rosalia Ramirez, it now has two mules, Cenizo and Canela (a third, Golondrina, was stolen at the start of 2013), looked after by 'bibliomuleros' Nelson Salcedo and Ruben Vasquez.Alex Johnson
"They're really trying to break me this time."Ferrett Steinmetz
Aand now a deep breath, good...open your eyes when you're ready.Manuele Fior
It was, in his view, delightful.Whit Stillman