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She had the right idea, old man, don't you think - to disappear before it gets too late?
~ Patrick Modiano
Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.
~ Patrick Modiano
Of all the punctuation marks, he told me, ellipses were his favorite.
~ Patrick Modiano
Nebel war aufgekommen, ein feiner, eisiger Nebel, der einem die Lungen mit Frische füllte, daß man glaubte, in der Luft zu schweben.
~ Patrick Modiano
Submit! Juliet's Joy screeches underneath him at no one in particular. "I've got to get a new horse," the Mayor mutters.
~ Patrick Ness
He was the thing the world had suffered from most in her four billion years of existence: a stupid man with power.
~ Patrick Ness
As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his eyes glinting. "It's time for them to meet the Ask.
~ Patrick Ness
Poo" Manchee barks quielty to himself. "Poo, poo, poo." "Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
~ Patrick Ness
This was a kingdom. ("What?" Conor said, looking around his backyard. "Here?") (The monster cocked its head at him curiously. You have not heard of it? ) ("Not a kingdom around here, no," Conor said. "We don't even have a McDonald's.")
~ Patrick Ness
Then she said, with mock horror, "She's going to bring some of her old wigs, if you can believe it." She rubbed her bare head with her free hand. "I'll look like a zombie Margaret Thatcher.
~ Patrick Ness
Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world? "No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little.
~ Patrick Ness
Sarah felt that any world that needed this many lessons must have something deeply wrong with it.
~ Patrick Ness
It was not wrong, the monster said, It was only a thought, one of a million. It was not an action.
~ Patrick Ness
She bleeds from under the band. 0001 bleeds red. (which I already knew)
~ Patrick Ness
I am this wild earth, come for you.
~ Patrick Ness
The fact that she was a young female with Noise was enough to stun him for a moment. Human women didn't have it, of course, something that had caused no end of difficulty, given how eager humans were to be outraged about difference.
~ Patrick Ness
Eugene turned the key. A sound like a two-story house being shat out the asshole of a zebra ripped through the dashboard.
~ Patrick Ness
I watched him, warily. "You have let your devil get away from you." He looked genuinely confused. "To what other purpose is a devil?
~ Patrick Ness
But how are you this fine evening? —My arches are falling. —Isn't that the first line of a sonnet?
~ Patrick Ness
I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.
~ Patrick O'Brian
looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.' 'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jack; it will do him no harm, at all. His digestive processes--
~ Patrick O'Brian
It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Outrage is conditioned not by the nature of the atrocity but by the affiliation of the victim and the perpetrator
~ Unknown
They're going to regret fucking with a linguist,
~ Unknown