The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory.
– Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson.
“Picture a summer stolen whole from some coming-of-age film set in the 1950s.”
In The Woods, (2007), by Tana French.
“Call me Ishmael”, from Moby-Dick
“In the beginning was the Word” from the English version of St John’s Gospel
Gone with the Wind
“Scarlet O’Hara was not beautiful.”
That.
“On the third day of their honeymoon, infamous environmental activist Stewie Woods and his new bride, Annabel Bellotti, were spiking trees in the forest when a cow exploded and blew them up. Until then, their marriage had been happy.”
– Open Season, by C.J. Box
“You see, I had this space suit.”
- Have Space Suit Will Travel, Robert Heinlein
I think I can do without such “Awesomeness”":dubious:
“The citadel was dark, and the heroes were sleeping. When they breathed, it sounded as if they were testing the air for dragon smoke.”
Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins
“In my family, there was no clear division between religion and fly fishing.”
~by Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, 1976~
“He was born with the gift of laughter, and a sense that the world was mad.”
- Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.
“It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times”
Damn it!
–*Rebecca *
To each their own. I assume you’re not much for Tom Robbins either, in that case (given that the two authors have a similar way with words).
From Day Trips to the Desert , by Geoff Nicholson:
“In five years, the penis will be obsolete,” said the salesman.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Arm of the Great Spiral Galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun.
-Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
“Marley was dead, to begin with.”
"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.”
“A screaming comes across the sky.”