A Silly Book Game Part 33

"What happened to the walls, smeared with those hateful words, when our house was torn down?"
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"Never would I permit that word to cross my lips."

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

"Have you made up your mind yet about the material for the wedding-dress, Tony?"

"Maybe they've got pictures."

Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett

"Who's touched the book since it was found?"

"Old Wilkie's taking prep and he'll blow up if I haven't got one."

Jennings goes to School by Anthony Buckeridge

"Well Jennings, what does a bat do in the winter?"

"They vacation in places where they can meet men, like on Caribbean cruises and European tours."

Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman

"Can you recommend a place in Antigua where I can stay for a couple of months?"

"On the table in my little room."

Minna by Karl Gjellerup

"You love, really love, two men?"

"Your words, not mine."

Signs of Life by Natalie Taylor

"Can I still change?"

"I rather fear that, were I to suggest leaving, i should be forcibly prevented by my fellow-parishioners."

Augustus Carp, Esq, Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man by Henry Howarth Bashford

"Have you ever thought of making your son a missionary?"

"Sin should not be hereditary."

Consolation by Michael Redhill

"Do you have pain?"

"Women do seem to be always talking about health; I suppose they haven't got anything else to think of!"

The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

"What is the matter with its architecture, Mr Minafer?"

"The mixture of various architectural styles in the work he prepared for his entrance examination may have been the very reason why he received only a "Pass" grade . . ."

Gaudi: 1853-1926: Antoni' Gaudi' i Cornet: a Life Devoted to Architecture

"A Genius or a Madman?"

"I don't think pointing it out would help you. You probably wouldn't understand."

The Magnificent Ambersons by booth Tarkington

"What makes people tired?"

"It's no surprise that many people don't get as much sleep as they would like . . ."

Dreaming yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation
by Alan Wallace

"Naming anomalies: 'How odd Is THAT?' "

"Maybe I ought'n to."

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

"Don't you think of nothing but rabbits?"

"It's going to take time."

Snake Skin by CJ Lyons

"Bomb? What bomb?"

"It was all like sparklers, like crystals falling on yer - it was so pretty"

Poor Cow by Nell Dunn

"Help, where's me false hair - the dog ain't had it has he?"

"I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here."

Looking for Alaska by John Green

"What are you, an owl?"

"Relax, Professor, I'm a trained surgeon."

Inferno by Dan Brown

"What's a chthonic monster?"

"I'm afraid I'm awfully bad about flowers."

The Wild Cherry Tree by HE Bates

"Are you trying to pinch bits from the garden?"

"No, that was one of the rules, remember?"

Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst

"What do girls do at slumber parties?"

"We had smashing fun. We found an old anchor - it had barnacles stuck all over it - and an old rope and a big crab."

The Wild Cherry Tree by HE Bates

"What new ideas have you come up with for the fete?"

"Forty of us, in forty arm-chairs."

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

""Not seventeen, Lady Henry?"

"My wedding is to be next year."

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

"You have been wondering how my moustache felt?"

"Don't you goddamn dare."

Dream with Little Angels by Michael Hiebert

"Oh, you got a boyfriend now?"

"My heart goes out to that poor, misguided soul."

Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson

"You in my squad now?"

"You canʻt handle this on your own?"

The 13th Hour
by Richard Doetsch

"Well, I definitely need to see THAT. Where is it?"

"On the outskirts of Gritzmacher Springs, Kansas"

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

"Can you think of anything finer for a big husky like you than to spend his life bringing poor, weak, sick, scared folk to happiness?"

"He must mean, those who are kind to others will find God's favor."

A Different Sun: A Novel of Africa by Elaine Neil Orr

"What if I told you I might travel to Africa, as a missionary, as a missionary's wife?"

"I'll bet a cookie I live to see you a bishop yourself."

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

"Would you like to see your own dear mammy indulging in mixed bathing?"

Be polite.

I Brake for Yard Sales by Lara Spencer

Do I buy it? Or should I keep looking?

"Did you say it was at Carson's they had the new dress goods?"

Brook Evans by Susan Glaspell

"Father, would you let me stay on here at home with you, instead of going away with Caleb Evans?"

"Just for a moment."

A Shroud for Aquarius by Max Allan Collins

"is that standard procedure?

"I did tell them it was a fluke, Sir, but they wouldn't believe me."

Jennings goes to School by Anthony Buckeridge

"What if they're not hard-boiled?"

"Not yet. Soon, though. Any time now."

Lunch with Buddha by Roland Merullo

"Do you do this for all the other people who come to stay? Is this your job?"

"If I knew how to save you from an hour's uneasiness I would do it."

The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

"What has the community ever done for me?"

"The question is whether they want you here."

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

"How can you know all this?"

". . . been around colleges!"

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

"Dost know nothing at all about whaling?"

"Chairman Mao teaches us that 'wherever there is struggle there is sacrifice' ".

Bright Red Star by Pei-chia Wang

"Have you arrested Hu-Han San?"

"It won't happen before I'm married."

Dr. Brinkley's Tower by Robert Hough

"What can I do about it?"

"You can get a pair a little too small for you, and too big for me, and we can take turns and use them. Won't that be fine?"

Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge

"...relics of the days when the countrymen of Julius Caesar had settled there. Where have they not settled?"

"Ay, there's the shame of it--not in Heathenesse, but Christian England!"

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

"What dost thou know of suffering and oppression?"

"You will see our utter poverty - never mind. Come in, and do not wonder that I am ready to take my life."

Among the Squirrels by Mrs Denison

"What! Is it possible that people in all this splendour are ever unhappy?"

"All is not always as it seems."

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

"What's the thumping?"

"She had killed twelve men with a long black hat-pin."

The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck

"Did anyone buy anything in your store this morning?"

"Mr Galloway took snuff."

'The Company of the Marjolaine Avignon 1759' in The Moon Endureth by John Buchan

"What more potent appeal to American pride than to say: 'We have got rid of King George; we choose of our own free will the older line and King Charles'?"

"The noble little fellow! I have frequently met with an account of the incident, but I never knew, till now, that it was really true."

Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge

"What did this strange buzzing mean?"

"Aboard both ships, the whistle of the winds mixed with the ominous sound of men sharpening steel."

The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 by Richard Zacks

"Shall anything be furnished to the ex-Bashaw to engage cooperation?"

"All the 72nd-scale armies, complete with their tanks and guns and trucks and stores and helicopters and boats."

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

"What height is this table?"

"Marionette-size," said Karou, who felt no pity whatsoever.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

"Why are you enemies?"

"I like not these rumours."

Gay Lord Robert by Jean Plaidy

"Where is mine host?"

"In Idaho, on the way to the airport."

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

"Why are you following me?"

"Poor Miss, she can't even be left alone for a short while."

Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

"Does your mother always watch you out of the corner of her eye?"

"There was an extraordinary bond between the president and his mother."

No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin

"What did they plant first?"

"My mother and father are what the snobs down South call 'poor white trash'. They pull tobacco in the summer and go on welfare in the winter."

The Odd Woman by Gail Godwin

"Why not have a lobotomy?"

"I don't know. Maybe. After the Army. But not if it's going to bore me to death."

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

"How do you get the jump on all those other guys out there trying to do the same thing?"

"Why not fix yourself up a little? Make yourself attractive to men."

The Odd Woman by Gail Godwin

"Are you saying that if a person is getting murdered at a certain moment, he should ENJOY that moment?"

"Next time it will be so much worse."

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

"D you want to see what she gave me?"

"There is a new baby, isn't there?"

Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

"Why didn't you call me before?"

"I wrote letters to various academics who might know."

Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

"How do you compare two parrots ?"

"I need help, that much seems certain."

The Most Human Human by Brian Christian

"How similar are they?"

"Soft cheeses collapse, firm cheeses indurate. Both go mouldy."

Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

"Do you know what I've had on my table in front of me for the last three weeks?"

"Nearly every time I come in, when you're alone, you're reading one of those books. They must be very nice."

Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

"How soon will I be old enough to read them?"

"You mean you're simply inquisitive."

Britannia Mews by Margery Sharp

"Was your husband a temperate man?"

"Until I went to Lawrenceville"

Mexico by James Michener

"How does a girl learn to choose the right man?"

"A little elementary psychology is all you need."

Nicholas and the Gang by Rene Goscinny

"Why can't you all be like your friend Cuthbert?"

"He knows damned well the real reason."

Mexico by James Michener

"How much wil he be getting at Plaza México?"

"A dress-allowance."

Britannia Mews by Margery Sharp

"Do you really live in a slum?"

"Well, frankly, no, I don't, Master."

Bauchelain and Korbal Broach by Steven Erikson

"What is it you wish us to do for you?"

"You'd better make a start on the spring flowers."

Hugo by Maria Gripe

"Don't you believe your mother's an angel?"

"She's so wonderful - doing a thing like that!"

Mexico by James Michener

"How was it your mother didn't escape too?"

"(That) man (pursuing her) on horseback smiled. . . . . . A pistol appeared in his hand. It fired."

The King James Conspiracy
by Phillip De Poy

"How is it that such schoolboy humor could be used by such
an erudite scholar?"

"Bent over the table with his eyes closed and his head thrown back in evidence of good faith, he was sketching with his mighty hand on the back of a visiting-card, the outline of a pig."

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

"Do you know what makes you go red and pale?"

"(I)nstead of sinking into a morass of fear and failure, soar with the wisdom of the heart."

Courage and Contentment: a Collection of Talks on Spiritual Life
by Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

"What should I do when I have to make a very important call?"

"You will find that when people discuss and express their views nothing ever comes of it but confusion worse confounded."

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

"The sun will soon be entering the sign of the Crab. Do you know what that means?"

"Those ugly days are gone."

Mexico by James A. Michener

"What did you do during the long weeks of the siege?"

"For the past seven days, I've been in bed at Avenor jousting the lights out of three willing doxies."

Fugitive Prince by Janny Wurts

"Should I curse you or thank you for my deliverance?"

"I'm doing my best."

Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence by David Samuel Levinson

"In exchange for what?"

"Small brown coats of mice and one velvety black mole-skin waist-coat."

The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter

"What are those dear soft fluffy things?"

"She had what might have been two puppies wriggling in her jumper just above her waistband."

Are You Somebody? by Nuala O'Faolain

"What happened to your knickers?"

"The good Lord sees your heart, not the braid on your jacket, before Him we are all in our birthday suits, generals and common men alike."

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

"You - you mean I am cured?"

"Right enough, Sarge."

Soul Music by Terry Pratchett

"So why are you going upstairs?"

"I, of course, I never want to go out. Oh no! I may stay at home with the cat! You couldn't think of taking your wife and children, like any other decent man, to a fair!"

Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures by Douglas Jerrold

"Do you know what puddings cost; or do you think they fly in at the window?"

"They call us wizards for a reason."

419 by Will Ferguson

"Have you tried to spear a fish in muddy water?"

"Wish I could drown him."

Stalky and Co by Rudyard Kipling

"What's that thing you were humming at prep last night, Stalky?"

"I can't stop thinking about the music,"

Soul Music by Terry Pratchett

"Can you come back tomorrow night?"

"It's too dangerous, Rico'

The Girl With No Name: The Incredible Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys by Marina Chapman

"What do your little friends on the street call you?"

"I have never made any name for myself, and as I have always been known as Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, it seems to me simpler and more correct to be called that."

Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Volume II: The Post-War Years

"When will our sense of humor reassert itself and dominate our foolish fears?"

"They concealed the ear of a cadaver in his nice, clean, new pocket-handkerchief when he went to Sunday supper at the house of a girl."

Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

"D'you realise that 67.9 per cent of all women who go to the operating table have husbands who smoke tobacco?"

"Everyone says you've been on drugs all the while you've worked here."

The Day My Brain Exploded by Ashok Rajamani

"Why'd you just knock into my friend?"

"I said I would bring him down."

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

"And what are the plans for the French?"

"There is no need for you to worry about such things. It's my job to stay abreast of these developments."

River of Smoke by AmitavGhosh

"What kind of emporer he is?"

"He did not cut a very insinuating figure"

Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens

"You might have known it friend, it was perfectly understood. How came you to be so ill-informed?"

"... Because I get your magazine and frankly it's a piece of shit."

Inside Scientology by Janet Reitman

"Should he be ordained?"

"God will reveal His purpose only when He is ready."

Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin

"Eh, Bosco! Have you met this girl who is to become your wife?"

"She has been trying to get round me every way, with her praise of this, and her praise of that; but I saw what she was about - I saw through it all - I am not very easily taken-in, my dear."

Sanditon by Jane Austen

"Do you venture upon two dishes of strong green tea in one evening?"

"In India we are putting cardamom and lemon in green tea."

Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin

"I don't understand. What does this bar have to do with it?"

"Mrs Ruggles felt it was wiser to avoid the subject at present."

The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett

"Please may I keep my egg to take home to Mum?"

"Well, letʻs hope so, anyway."

Why Shoot a Butler?
by Georgette Heyer

"What is this all about? What have I got to dress for?"

"The Ladies' Ball at Brighton...My coming-out dress was simple and dainty in the extreme, being made entirely of quilted bombazine caught up over a heavy white ottoman ."

Lady Addle Remembers; being the Memoirs of Lady Addle of Eigg by Mary Dunn

"Why shouldn't I go for a bicycle ride by myself?"

"Xenichka, you are not well enough."

The Mirrored World by Debra Dean

"Would you freeze to death? Is that your wish?"

"Is old Winter keeping going?"

Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

"Got a pimple on my chin, Doc. What is 't - small pox?"

"As of a week ago."

The Kill Room by Jeffery Deaver

"Is he enjoying those sissy drinks with umbrellas and plastic sea horses?"

"Come on, darling, I'll pour you a nice glass of wine."

Origin in Death by J.D. Robb

"What happened to the ones that didn't come out exactly right?

"They were killed, you see."

Blackout by Connie Willis

"Will they cut their heads off? Like they did Anne Boleyn?"

"What they can't see won't hurt them?"

Somebody Up There Hates Me by Hollis Seamon

"Can I hang with you guys for awhile?"

"If that hill is there and it's green, we'll go over it together."

Wool by Hugh Howey

"Don't you ever feel that urge? Didn't you when you were younger?"

*106 That answer would have been correct in the >105 jnwelch: book!

"You can't tell anyone. It's top secret."

Blackout by Connie Willis

"Did they have to take off my foot?"

(>108 jnwelch: Really?! I was just being morbidly facetious.)

"There was any amount of blood."

Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge

"What was it that George did all those years ago...to make her love him?"

"First, the allure of poetry. The second I'm too gallant to mention."

Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie

" How did you first get to know her?"

"She was wearing a flannel nightgown."

Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman

"How'd you like the Tupperware?"

"Mind your own business, unless you want your next cup of coffee to be your last."

Permed to Death by Nancy J. Cohen

"What about the surprise you were planning?"

"You're going to the farm with me. Eva's cows haven't been milked."

The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope by Rhonda Riley

"So you gonna wait until after Christmas to give me my present?"

"What's the matter with August. Lighten up, Jack."

Close Range by Annie Proulx

"I got fired...hey, look, at least give me a reason. I put too much wasabi on the goddamn fish balls?"

"Quite sure," said Lily.

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

"Do you think I am uncomplimentary?"

"That's what we need."

22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson

"Why must you ask me again and again?"

"I hope you don't think me too rude."

Of Love and Hunger by Julian Maclaren-Ross

"Where's your team spirit? Don't you care if the South East wins the cup?"

"Oh, that sort of thing hardly interests me, you know."

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

"Can I make a deal with this guy, if I think he's within hooting distance of being on the level?"

"When the kid left so did a stack of change on the windowsill"

Close Range by Annie Proulx

"Who would display evidence of gross carnivorous appetite in times of heightened vegetarian sensibility?"

dogs. . . . . . .
(W)hen a spent bone was flung to them . . .they went for it by brigades and divisions.

A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain

"Are you in your right mind?
. . .Are these other people in their right minds? . . .
And this isn't an asylum, I mean it isn't a place where there are crazy people?

"Upper class neuroses catered for only."

A Mind to Murder by P.D. James

"Do you know who treated Mrs. Bolam?"

"The chichi doctor that I went to first, with the greyish skin and the gold tooth."

Of Love and Hunger by Julian Maclaren Ross

"Ever been dismissed for dishonesty or other misdemeanour?"

"Oh no, nothing like that".

Perfect Is Overrated by Karen Bergreen

"What should we do about playdates and birthday parties?"

"My limbs are stiff these days, Your Highness. I'm an old woman now, and since the dear Duke went I have felt little inclination to leave my home."

Caroline, the Queen by Jean Plaidy

"If Frederick had been allowed to live with them instead of being kept away in Hanover all those years, might there not have been a better understanding between him and his parents?"

"It's trying to do something that's causing all the problems."

How to be Good by Nick Hornby

"How can we get Maria dancing again?"

"The forest smells so good. One gets an urge to jump and run and laugh!"

Dreams of Roses and Fire by Eyvind Johnson

"Urbain, are you good or evil?"

"You have two seconds to let go of my hand before I use the other to punch you."

Memory in Death by J.D. Robb

"Who the hell let all these people out on the street?"

"Mrs Croom on the roof with a saw"

Close Range by Annie Proulx

"What are you doin out there in the gravel pit with them tractors?"

"You'd never believe me."

Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson

"Soon? How soon?"

"I've just talked to Eileen about the rescheduling."

Tolstoy Lied by Rachel Kadish

"Do you want children?"

"That way the gene pools get mixed up a little. It's healthier all around."

Never Go Back by Lee Child

"Surprised?"

"That he is guilty of a bit of loose living as far as women are concerned, that we know - but this! No!"

Dreams of Roses and Fire by Eyvind Johnson

"What do you dream about? For example?"

"You and your Jamaica."

Casino Royale by Ian Fkeming

"Shall we have a glass of champagne in the nightclub before we go to bed?"

"She said it would be all right if that's what we want to do."

Benediction by Kent Haruf

"Who's going to teach you how to ride?"

"Irishmen and Irishwomen."

Transatlantic by Colum McCann

"What in the world have you got in here?"

". . .not so much individual as social works
. . . the deposit left by a people, the accumulations
formed by ages, the residuum of the successive
evaporations of human society -- in short a species
of formations."

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo

" ʻTo what language does the word belong?"

"Never you mind that."

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

"What do you think of a brilliant display of fireworks?"

"I don't think I'll go after all."

South of Superior by Ellen Airgood

"You get Russians up here to work?"

"Maybe, maybe not."

TransAtlantic by Colum McCann

"Did you roll down the window?"

"One moment, Mrs Power, I think there's somebody outside."

The Fly on the Wheel by Katherine Cecil Thurston

"Is Angela amusing you, Mr Carey? She's a terrible chatterbox"

"I couldn't have askedfor a better companion in that region."

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane

"What was it Kerouac said?"

" We're all mad."

Two in the Bush by Gerald Durrell

"You wouldn't like me to take all my clothes off and swim across the lake, would you?"

Mikkel Thogersen remained silent, wincing under this flood of bawdry.

The Fall of the King by Johannes V. Jensen

"Where have you put the bodies?"

"They're in the Alamo Room."

The Unkindest Cut by Honor Hartman

"What on earth was it doing in our sofa?"

"One would think you never saw a motor in your lives."

The Fly on the Wheel by Katherine Cecil Thurston

"Why do you let him take you out into the garden in this conspicuous way - give you cigarettes - actually make love to you under the eyes of anybody who might happen to pass by?"

"I was very happy to see him."

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane

"What did take Thomas to France?"

"He was fast becoming one of the most famous and successful missionaries that our group of churches had ever sent out. Tribesmen from places we couldn't pronounce sent thank-you letters to our headquarters."

Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

"Jeanette, we think you may be having problems at school. Do you want to tell us about them?"

can't make the touchstones work!

"I'm thirty years old...and forty pounds overweight...I could be wrong, but I think I'm ready for a change."

The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster

"And what about you, Rory?"

" 'And who am I, Jonica, who am I?' "

My search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket

" 'But you have taught poetry?' "

"Farewell, my jolly jug,
My lively, foaming mug,
And thanks my bow and fiddle,
For your help with rhyme and riddle."

The Fall of the King by Johannes V Jensen

"That big mussel shell - what does it signify?"

"I don't know about national affairs."

Ashoona, Daughter of the Winds by Yvonne Harris

"What brings you to Edmonton?"

"The emporer's golden envoy recieved the divine commands
'proclaim abroad the silken sounds and go to barbarous lands'"

When Asia Was the World by Stewart Gordon

"Who were these Sufis?"

"The most marvellous possession. No wonder people like having them."

Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim

"What is to be done with girls of good family who do not marry and have no money?"

" It was rumored, with assurance, that . . .Nikolai Sergevich, having understood the young princeʻs character, intended to use, for his own profit, all the young manʻs faults: that Nikolai Sergevichʻs daughter Natasha (now already seventeen years old) had been able to awaken the young 20-year-old princeʻs love; that her father and mother had favored this love, even while
going through the motions of not even noticing it; that the tricky and "immoral" Natasha had finally completely overwhelmed the young man who, for a year now, -- thanks to his* efforts
-- had not so much as seen an actually noble young lady
- - even at a time when so many of the latter are growing to maturity in the worthy houses of those landowners who were (now) his neighbors.

Humilies et Offenses
by Fyodor Dostoevskii
tr. by Andreʻ Markowicz

But it will still be asked -- to no avail - - "what IS an author?"!

*his: antecedent (?),
Your guess is as good as mine. The above is a translation OF
a translation: mine of Andreʻ Markowiczʻs French tr. of
Dostoevskii.

"You'd think people would know by now, wouldn't you?"

Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson

"What was that elixir again?"

"Acorn-cupfuls of honeydew."

The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse by Beatrix Potter

"Why do you always come in at a window?"

"I can't tell you how much fun that was."

Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson

"And what do you seek in return for this gift?"

"Exquisite things like parsley and violets"

Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim

"I am sorry the Foreign Office bores you so much. Do you really have to spend your days gumming up envelopes?"

"Just seems the most likely place I know, but I'm open to suggestions."

Terror on Tuesday by Ann Purser

"And when you went backstage?"

"The drapes were awful."

The Liars' Club by Mary Karr

"J.P., you go in that river?"

"My mission is to make sure we don't forget the old way."

The Telling Room by Michael Paterniti

"This is what your friend does?"

"He worked for (the boss): Basset; therefore he sided with the boss."

The Case of the Counterfeit Eye by Erle Stanley Gardner

ʻWhy would a murderer mask himself AFTER committing a crime?"

"It was how he kept her there -- it was the deal."

Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift

"But couldn't he damn well see?"

"Ask him. I don't know."

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

"You don't think there's any chance of them being in cahoots, do you?"

"It is very bewildering. The advice one gets points in such opposite directions."

Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim

"The future...is only empty of what people call prospects, by which I take them to mean husbands, but I shall fill it with pigs instead...Do my plans to you seem selfish?"

"I would have to invent new words to describe it."

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks

"Why were you with Mrs. Patterson?"

"I waited a whole week, but no answer came, not another word from her. And Mama and Papa's return was drawing nearer and nearer. So I came to San Francisco to get her."

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

"What do you think of her?"

"She's a successful businesswoman and she'll get her personal life in order soon."

Buzz Off by Hannah Reed

"Is it true that Manny Chapman was visiting you from the river so nobody would see him?"

"Yes, he came over this morning."

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

"Now, what are we going to tell the police?"

"Mrs. Patterson stole Max."

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks

"Oh, did Wooly tell you that?"

"Less of your cheek, Tommy Hobday".

Miss Buncie's Book by D.E. Stevenson

"Is this early enough for you?"

>172 jnwelch:: Ooooh! Isn't that a wonderful book, jnwelch?

"I brought you into the world sooner than I expected."

The gods will have Blood by Anatole France

"Is this pattern to your liking, Monsieur Gamelin?"

"That's out. You know it as well as I do."

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

"How soon are you ready to make the first payment and take the falcon off my hands?"

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"Another hour at least"

The Gods will have Blood by Anatole France

"You don't recognize your daughter?"

"I didn't. But it still feels like payback."

Deception on His Mind by Elizabeth George

"When did you last see her?"

"She finally shook her head, smiled, and whispered in my ear. "I'm going to buy your birthday present." That's the last time I ever saw her.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

"What kind of books does he like to read?"

" ʻStill reading (D.H.) Lawrence?ʻ (Iʻm being) asked?
. .. . . Ar! Thass right! "

The Moving Toy Shop
by Edmund Crispin

"You know who it was (that killed her)? Has the body been found?"

"I keep one under my mattress."

The Homecoming by Earl Hamner Jr

"There is too a Santa Claus, isn't there, Clay-Boy?"

“There may be two opinions about that,”

Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers.

“How could you let me hear it first from somebody else?”

"I suppose the truth is that I couldn't face reality."

In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner by Elizabeth George

"What shall I tell your father?"

“Tell you when we’ve got the results of that post mortem,”

Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers.

“And tell me, man of no discrimination and worthy to be fed on boiled cod all the year round, tell me how it comes that your little waitress and her railway clerk came down to Epping Forest to regale themselves on sandwiches made from coalblack, treacle-cured Bradenham ham, which long ago ran as a young wild boar about the woodlands, till death translated it to an incorruptible and more glorious body?”

"As they were hungry they ate well but the food was indifferent."

The Gods will have Blood by Anatole France

"They were more beautiful, your goddesses of the Opera and the Comedie Francaise, weren't they, than we poor little National actresses of today?"

“They were very obliging girls, but not very bright.”

Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers.

“Wouldn’t they give you the idea that marriage is a failure?”

"The house was in utter disorder, as was natural"

Salem Chapel by Margaret Oliphant

"Two people - surely women - and what women could be abroad at such an hour?"

“Not but what these modern girls are good goers, many of them, and does a lot of things as would have been thought very fast in the old days …”

Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers.

“… here’s half a crown – thirty pennies, you know. Any use to you?”

"Your Majesty is gracious"

Caroline the Queen by Jean Plaidy

"What happened to a man who killed another in a duel?"

“Not in a duel – in those days that would not have been considered disgraceful – though violence is always displeasing to the Lord – but the man was foully murdered …”

Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers.

“You will forgive me, won’t you?”

"I won't be doing that until Nicola Maiden's killer is found."

In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner by Elizabeth George

"What are you saying, exactly?"

"Does she Whehf-wheff-whehf-whef-tized?"

A Death in the Family by James Agee

"Uncle Andrew, why is Mama so fat?"

"This worries me."

Building a Home with My Husband by Rachel Simon

"Aren't you in pain?"

"Yes, I can feel it."

A Bit of A Difference by Sefi Atta

"How's the job going?"

“God! What a grind!”

Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers.

“Why come back to her at all?”

"I never liked her meself and never pretended otherwise."

We Think the World of You by JR Ackerley

-She's expectin'
-But I thought she was only a puppy?
-No, Megan.
"What again!" This would be the fourth. "I thought you weren't going to have any more?"

"You think you're the perfect headshrinker with all those psychology books you read, and you really don't know a thing."

The Pigman by Paul Zindel

"Do you still want to go to the zoo tomorrow?"

"We've counted up and he ain't got the money to do it - that's all"

Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton

"My bonnet IS becoming, isn't it?"

"One of the best in the city."

Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson

"How do you expect to find the nest?"

"As a matter of fact, my need isn't as great as yours. I had a very good dinner last night."

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

"And you wouldn't care to live in the North?"

"I certainly wish you had informed me of this plan."

Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl

"What is beautiful girl like you doing with dirt on hands?"

"I helped build a space station!"

Constellation Games by Leonard Richardson

"Are you on Earth?"

"That earth which his love had turned to a veritable Paradise."

The Woman's Way by Charles Garvice

"You mean - you can't mean, Percy, that you would SELL the diamonds?"

"Yes, twice."

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

"Did you give her the dope?"

"It was up to her to take it or leave it."

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

"Is he...likely to babble about my affairs?"

"Writing books about grandparents seems to run in the family."

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

"Will you like seeing your Daddy again?"

"The past is sometimes a very good place to live."

The Hollow by Agatha Christie

"But, have we a future?"

"Well, as long as yer hands don't wander, mate."

Up the Junction by Nell Dunn

"Do you ever use perfume?"

"I daresay -"

The Hollow by Agatha Christie

"If you care about Edward so much, Midge, why don't you do something about him?"

"It takes guts to do something like that."

The Silent Wife by A. S. A. Harrison

"How's the Ovaltine?"

"It looks funny to me."

The Light Years by Elizabeth Howard

"Do you think we should try it on our faces before we sell it?"

"I don't know what it contained."

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

"I say, old chap, I'm deuced hard up. Couldn't you lend me three hundred or so?"

"Not for all the Esquire stories in the world."

The Shining by Stephen King

"Why not?"

"She has made him a pair of socks but I don't think there is anything more than that between them"

Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym

"I wonder what it would be like to be turned into a pillar of salt?"

" ' Don't Look Back'...The lyric says the problem is a woman's..."

The Heart of Rock & Soul by Dave Marsh

"...but why not?"

"The fish get a fright and they don't show up again. That's what it is"

The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga

"Who'd want to go out in this rotten weather if he could stay in bed?"

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"Ghouls"

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

"Might I ask what you're doing out so late?"

"I am publishing a book in the German language."

A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester

"If we justly hang thieves and behead robbers, why should we let Roman avarice go free?"

"I really didn't want you to get blown away like some common criminal."

The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

"What's it like in prison?"

“You let your tongue run too fast, Margaret. You forget Mr Muldoon is a new friend of yours, and not an old one.”

The Primrose Path by Bram Stoker.

“Have you ever looked how some rivers end?”

"I've been thinking over what the King of the Fishers was saying about going up the stream...I don't see why we shouldn't try it."

The Little Grey Men by BB

"Oh! So you've seen fairies too, have you, Daddy?"

"We had a lot of fun."

Poison Pen by Sheila Lowe

"Why would she hire you to do something she could do herself?"

"I don't know, old man. Are you worried about that?"

The Light Years by Elizabeth Howard

"Why can't she use the telephone?"

"Johnny needed a pencil to write down the address so he handed the phone to Brenda."

The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

"When Nicole gets back, tell her I love her. Will you do that for me?"

"...there are alternative forms of expression which may be...used instead."

The Novel Cure by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin

"See anyone trying to shoot you down?"

"Neither party had fire-arms...the contest was...hand to hand..."

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

" ' My brother has said that a snake crept into camp...which is he?' "

"The snake is charismatic Mr. Eliot, the beau of Madame Zizi who runs the hotel."

The Novel Cure by Susan Elderkin and Ella Berthoud

"What have we become?"

"I was a twenty-five-year-old man when I became a vampire, and the year was seventeen ninety-one."

Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice

"Now, do you still want the interview?"

"But, this doesn't mean you are off the hook."

The Novel Cure by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin

"And besides, how much living can one person actually do?"

"I'd have no way of knowing that."

People Will Talk - John Kobal

"How, from that, did you get into Mamoulian's 'Jekyll and Hyde' "?

"You're talking madness,"

Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice

"You were killing only animals?"

"I want to talk to an attorney first."

The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

"What will I meet when I die?"

"Close your eyes for an instant, and then open them slowly. And when you do, you will see it."

Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice

"But what were those creatures? Why were they like this?"

"Base trickery. That is all it is."

The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

"Delilah, what has changed?"

"You know that we are off to Brighton?"

Longbourn by Jo Baker

"Is there pineapple?"

"You will keep tempting me with these aromatic delicacies. You're driving me to ulcers."

My Family and other Animals by Gerald Durrell

"Is that...er...you know...is that the sound of a plane?"

"Rescue service helicopter coming in."

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

"What's the status of the search?"

“I had known that my father had a brother and that his name was Alfred – never Alf – but further than that, nothing.”

‘The Boy in Green Velvet’, in The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini by Reggie Oliver.

“If you and I are alone, how can it be otherwise?”

"It was my wife, madame; she has just been delivered of a baby."

My Family and other Animals by Gerald Durrell

"- I've just had erisipelas'
- Ah ha! really? Which...er...treatment did you have?"

“Oddly enough, you can do quite a lot. You can pray.”

‘Death Mask’, in The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini by Reggie Oliver.

“You’ve seen that photo in my room, haven’t you? I was a stunner, wasn’t I?”

"Oh, don't be stupid, Rowley."

Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie

"Perhaps you've changed your mind?"

"I couldn't say one way or the other."

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

"And who the hell is Evert Gullberg?"

“An absolute château-bottled shit.”

‘Death Mask’, in The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini by Reggie Oliver.

“Started on the G and T already?”