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“It became increasingly common to resolve international tensions by legal means. The chant “Criminal Trials, Not Missilesâ€� became prevalent after its use in my first State of the Union address. Nice ring to it.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

“So instead of committing robbery, I made tea.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup

“There had been a tree on the property once, but it had done the sensible thing and died a few years earlier.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Climbing all this way was difficult, but judging by how the dukes family fit their clothing perhaps they figured they could use the exercise.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“When coat is cat, and boat is bat, and goathered looks like gathered, and booth is both, since both are bth, the readers eye is bothered.”
― James Thurber, The Wonderful O

“And so it went, and some lads lost their lasses, and most men lost their tempers, and all men lost their patience, and a few men lost their minds.”
― James Thurber, The Wonderful O

“Geese were safe as long as one of them did not stray from the rest and become a goose, and if one of a family of mice wandered from the nest, he became a mouse and lost his impunity.”
― James Thurber, The Wonderful O

“Hyde was suddenly up to his ankles in phantasmagoria. 'Crabs, crayfish, prawns, shrimps,' he howled, 'alias the decapods. Centipedes and spiders, alias the arthropods. Snails and slugs, alias molluscs and gastropods.' He thought he saw crickets, too, alias orthoptera, and a score of zooming bats, alias chiroptera. He turned and ran, pursued by rodents small and big, the rat, the rabbit and the guinea-pig.”
― James Thurber, The 13 Clocks and The Wonderful O

“Don't let a condition define you, son."

"Okay, Dad," Adrien says sarcastically. "I won't let my brain, you know—the most important, central organ we all have—I won't let that define me. I'll be defined by my pancreas instead.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“Feeling slightly dizzy from going round in circles...”
― Jessica Mitford, Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking

“Horses were less the thundering creatures Of pounding hoof beats and unparalleled speed found in movies and more like golf carts that ran on a tank of grass and occasionally bit you.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England

“…were far enough away that scowls would lose their potency due to wind resistance and gravitational drop.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“A titch too purple for hot pink it was at least a comfortable lukewarm pink.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“His whole body tightened and shrank in on itself as if he had been a testicle.”
― Tony Williams, Cole the Magnificent

“Perhaps that was what the sun subsisted on. Burning as fuel the willpower of those who lived beneath it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Season's Bleatings by Stewart Stafford

I'm looking forward to Christmas,
As Nostradamus dreaded prophecy,
In place of war, famine, apocalypse,
I see spending, coveting and family.

Wandering through warm déjà vu,
In new ways with usual-faced folk,
Fat in an absent winter wonderland,
Goodwill to all men as you go broke.

A fever dream or a deep turkey coma?
St. Nicholas dripping presents around?
An eviction notice to vacate sobriety,
Consumerism and consumption unbound.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Granted, that meant Crow did have a conscience, but ignored it most of the time. Which is verifiably worse.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“…sipped a coffee as hot and black as his thoughts.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold

“The stars in his eyes unrelated to love at first sight.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Borders of Infinity

“Irony is a curious concept. Specifically, I mean the classical definition: that of a choice leading to an opposite outcome from what is intended. Many grammarians bemoan the word’s near-constant misuse—sec-ond only in dictional assassination to the way some people use the word “literally.â€� (Their use of which is ironic.)”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“This game of yours Madgett has everything in it except the kitchen sink" - Cissie Colpitts”
― Peter Greenaway, Peter Greenaway: Drowning By Numbers

“His promises were, as he then was, mighty;
But his performance, as he is now, nothing;”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English

“He took a long breath. "I know this doesn't make you happy. But there's a reason."

"Is that right?" (she said)

"How much do you have?"

"You know what I've always liked about you Michael?"

"No, what?"

"I don't remember either.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“Master Heldris of Cornwall
is writing these verses strictly to measure.
As for those who possess them, he commands and requests,
right here at the beginning of the work he is creating,
that anyone who has them should burn them
rather than share them with the kind of people
who don't know a good story
when they hear one.”
― Heldris de Cornualles, Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

“Travelling tells the world that you're educated, that you're willing to take risks, that you have earned your condescension. But do you know what my apartment has that no other place does? All my stuff.”
― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

“Did you think I would go meekly, Father? I have too much of you in me for that.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Sometime bad self-esteem is just good common sense" Cloris Leachman, Spanglish”
― Kristen Wasyliszyn, Why Is My Bra Still On?

“[Christianity] is in fact the religion of those who have been disinherited and condemned by life. Contrary to all vitalism and all worship of the healthy and strong, Christianity sees life better preserved by those who have already died once.”
― Dorothee Sölle, Suffering

“Conversing is truly an art, and I come from a scientific background!”
― Samraat Singh, A Death Day

“My ears are refutable to the mere words of your uttering mouth. Let your tongue be a vessel of substance, lest my ears turn deaf to the whispers of the inconsequential.”
― Rise Visuals