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“If you are going to break the law,” said Milo, “the best advice is to go big.“

Diana Moone,  Living Well.

“Fish are brain food,” said the old Captain, somewhat incongruously.

Tristan Holyoke,  A Tree Full of Monkeys.

“Watch me sparkle,” said the pretty young thing, her face almost filling the screen.  This was not said with actual words, of course.  But with that look of hers.  That special look.

Timothy Waldo,  The Important Things.

“I am reminded of the case of Red Tolliver of Northumberland.  A heartless swindler.  Though clever. Quite clever.  And that of the Tandy brothers.  Murderers they were.  That would be around 1887.  No, it was 1889.  And a cold winter it was, sir.  And some mention should be made of the mystery of the Captain’s Grove.”

Doyle Tatum,  The Holmesian Way.

“Fire her?  No, old boy, you do not fire her.  You grab her by the left ear and fling!”

Roone Giddings,  An Arrangement of Particles.

“Good grief, Caroline, why be restrained when you could be pursuing selfhood?”

Diana Moone,  Living Well.

“Please be more interesting,” implored Mr. Hodges.  “People come on!”

Douglas Cristobal,  Feel the Logic.

Again and again they mistakenly assume that the train has brakes.

Tyrone Sommer,  Circling the Drain.

Jeremy felt that, in all fairness, God owed both Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.  And he, Jeremy, intended to let the world hear all about it.

Dell Arbogast,  The Null Hypothesis and Other Stories.

“My wants are few and simple,” said Watson.

Doyle Tatum,  The Holmesian Way.