"May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch"
- Keisha Keenleyside
"A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween."
- Erma Bombeck
"You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him.""So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep."
- Tamora Pierce
"The Dimwit's Guide to the Female Mind might assist your efforts in understanding human females. But it must be pointed out that this subject can be a dangerous adventure and should be undertaken with ..."
- Anne Bishop
"The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he..."
- William Blake
"His fingers lightly grazed my cheek. "I didn't know you before. When you're not there, I can't concentrate. I'm wondering where you are, what you're doing...if you're there and I can see you, I can se..."
- Jamie McGuire
"Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan."
- Shannon Hale
"You think too much of your "toilette", Adele; but you may have a flower." I took a rose from a vase and fastened it in her sash. She sighed a sign of ineffable satisfaction, as if her cup of happiness..."
- Charlotte Brontë
"You know, Mac,”Cadmus said still looking out the window. “We may have to work on the way we tell our story …apparently it’s not amusing enough.” “I’ll try to include a joke between ‘he bled to death’a..."
- Sulari Gentill
"Soon she cried and farted herself to sleep."
- Louise Erdrich