Here’s a collection of my favorite phrases/sentences/paragraphs from last month that I haven’t already used for something. (I will skip most audiobooks, my transcription skills aren’t what they should be).
Ban This Book by Alan Gratz
How do you explain to someone else why a thing matters to you if it doesn’t matter to them? How can you put into words how a book slips inside of you and becomes a part of you so much that your life feels empty without it?
Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can’t make you into a bad person
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
If there’s a killer coming after you with a knife, embarrassment doesn’t even register.
If you have ever tried to stay afloat on a pair of magic bread slices, then you’ll know what it was like.
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a cookie look smug.
The Blood Tide by Neil Lancaster
The other two much younger investigators were self-importantly wandering around the bridge, trying to give the impression that they knew what they were doing.
You’re job pissed, you are.’
‘I prefer the term dedicated.’
The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide
If the price of keeping your job was shooting someone, maybe think about going to college.
Ren noted the shotgun. It was in its usual place, leaning against the wall between a rake and the long pruning shears.
“Quite a selection of gardening tools,” she observed.
“I grow ammo,” Marlowe replied. “The .357s are doing nicely. The 45s wont bloom until next year.” Ren didn’t laugh and she didn’t smile. He covered with a question…
“DeSallis is a tax accountant. He was mine for years but I let him go. He walks a little tog close to the line, but he could recite the IRS regulations and ski a the same time. DeSallis could find a deduction if it was hidden in my neighbor’s duck pond.”
The Sunshine was the worst motel in Hollywood and Hollywood had a lot of terrible motels. It was like a dying sewer rat amid a crowd of healthy sewer rats.
All at Sea by Chris McDonald
…no argument with a woman of a certain age about money gets won, especially if that woman is Northern Irish—the sweetest old lady in the land can turn into Deborah Meaden at the mention of cash.
It made Adam think of the Titanic, which was not a comforting notion at all.
When they’d been growing up, they’d both been unlucky in love: unlucky in the sense that the opposite sex had generally considered them invisible.
A short, round man with weathered skin and a beautiful combover appeared from the back and greeted them warmly in English.
‘Is it that obvious?’ Adam laughed.
‘Yes, my friend. You look like human milk bottle. Now, how may I help today?’
Dead Man in a Ditch by Luke Arnold
(I really wanted to take the time to transcribe a bunch of the lines from this, but if I stopped to note every good line here I wouldn’t have finished listening to it)
Good gamblers can separate math and emotion. Bad gamblers look for ways to make them align.
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
“And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don’t want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!”
“Good Heavens!” said Pippin. “At breakfast?”
(Image by DaModernDaVinci from Pixabay)
Grab a book, any book.
