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“The last week hadn鈥檛 been any better, come to think of it. On Monday they arrived at Gorda, just to find that the cargo of electronics he was to ship to Beowulf had been taken by another freighter for a lower fee. It took him until Wednesday before he found another cargo 鈥� which had to reach Earth by Saturday. The last straw was when his crew mutinied a day out of the Hermes system and demanded a pay increase. The union tended to call that sort of thing 鈥渃ollective bargaining鈥�, not actually mutiny, but hey 鈥� the results are the same. He tended to favor the term 鈥減iracy鈥�, but this wasn鈥檛 the high seas and out here, there were real pirates to worry about. His former crew had also wanted more time off and a better cook 鈥� at least one who knew how which end of a frying pan to hold. He was unable to comply, and so was forced to stop at Beowulf anyway. That was the last time he saw them. Fortunately for him, Weaver, Fuller and Jang opted to stay with him. Whether it was out of loyalty, or perhaps just convenience, he never knew.”
― Christina Engela, Blachart

“Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had (until then at least) been considered the best in the business. She had turned to 鈥榗leaning鈥� as an occupation because she really enjoyed endings more than beginnings 鈥� and anyway, she didn鈥檛 need to know her mark鈥檚 entire pedigree or life鈥檚 story, or to have some kind of facetious moral justification just to collect her fee. Unsurprisingly, when she did read 鈥� on those rare occasions 鈥� her books were always dog-eared from the back.”
― Christina Engela

“Trotzdem war etwas besonderes an ihr, nur konnte Lenchen nicht gleich darauf kommen, was es war. Doch dann bemerkte sie es: Die Fee hatte sechs Finger an jeder Hand.
"Mach dir nichts draus", sagte Franziska Fragezeichen, die Lenchens Blick bemerkt hatte, "bei uns Feen ist immer irgendetwas ein bisschen anders als bei gew枚hnlichen Menschen. Sonst w盲ren wir ja keine Feen. Das verstehst du doch?”
― Michael Ende, Die Zauberschule: und andere Geschichten

“Verdammt nochmal! Wo bleibt meine fette, gute Fee, die alles zum Besseren wendet und aus meinem Leben mein wohlverdientes M盲rchen macht?”
― Akira Arenth, Schei脽 auf Ritter! - Weihnachtsedition

“For the gaming fishermen there was the Whatoosie River and its native cocka-snoek, the main game fish of the resident Skegg鈥檚 Valley Dynamite Fishing Club. Cocka-snoek were wily and tough and rather too bright for mere fish. You wouldn鈥檛 catch much with a rod around here. Many inexperienced visitors would find the bait stolen from their hooks, which punctuated the discovery that their lines had somehow got snagged and tangled irretrievably around some underwater obstruction 鈥� sometimes tied together with neat little bows. Often, several direct hits with hand grenades were needed to stun the creatures long enough just to catch them, gut them and fry them, but these former military types had become experts at it. For a modest fee, tours could be arranged via the booking office, which included an overnight stay on the banks of the river where one could drop off to a great night鈥檚 sleep after a satisfying meal of cocka-snoek done on an open fire, and the sound the bits of shrapnel made rattling in your stomach.”
― Christina Engela, Loderunner

“God is where there are no 鈥榝ees鈥� being charged, where there is no botheration and where there is no scolding; that is where God is.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“I sent a box from Hawaii to the Canary Islands and it took six months for it to get there with an expensive import fee!”
― Steven Magee

“Budget airlines are getting strict with their personal item allowance so they can charge a large fee for an upgraded carry-on item!”
― Steven Magee