Martin Baldwin insisted on holding the book upside down as he was reading it. “It’s more challenging that way,” he sometimes whispered.
Rhonda Carstairs, A Bad Case of the Whim-Whams and Other Stories.
“That’s a girl’s writing, Linda. No guy who ever put pen to paper would write the word vivid.”
Marston Moore, Sweet Meteor of Death.
November 5, 2018. Here is another word I shall never use again: “amazing.”
Reginald Boyington, Dear Dreadful Diary.
“No, Millicent, he had to be sworn in. That had to happen first. It’s a sine qua non. Only then can something else happen.”
Michael Wayne Hammer, Mystery of the Murmuring Maiden.
The wring of truth.
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
When fact declines from its status of primary significance, it descends directly to no significance.
Trevor Albertus, Malevolent Asymmetry.
Give me theory, or give me death!
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
Lizzie learned how to grin—and learned so many other things—at the Yale School of Dramatic Arts.
Ralston Dowd, The General Ghastliness.
“…and you must apprehend it, young Bosworth, that to the wicked a decent man is an insufferable abomination.”
Trevor Walpole, The Imperfect Stranger. (1784)
“If my foot’s not jammed into my mouth already,” sang dear old Cyril, “just be patient.”
Quentin Drabb, Ebenezer’s Untold Tales.
