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“When you cross over into the weird stuff, there's no going back. Hector has a theory on it. Calls it the law of 'Anomalous Phenomena Attraction.' He explained it to me once. Didn't really pay attention, but it boils down to 'weird shit pulls in more weird shit.”
A. Lee Martinez,
[ "funny", "paranormal", "weird" ]
“Caroline stamped her foot in frustration, but when it landed, it landed on something considerablyless flat than the floor."Owww!" he yelled.Oh! His foot!Sorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorry , she mouthed.I didn't mean it."If you think I can understand that," he growled, "you're crazier than I'd originally thought.”
Julia Quinn,
[ "funny", "humor", "julia-quinn" ]
“Gliding down the bike path on a Saturday morning, you whip by somebody peddling in the opposite direction and give each other a nod. For a moment it's like "Hey, we're both doing the same thing. Let's be friends for a second.”
Neil Pasricha,
[ "cycling", "funny", "like-mindedness" ]
“I`ve got a black woolen hat and it`s got Pervert written across the front of it. It`s the name of the clothing label. And I was with my wife and my baby at the supermarket and I didn`t think. I just put my hat on Clara`s head, because it was cold. And the looks. I couldn`t figure out why I was getting death looks. And then I realized my 10-month old baby`s wearing a hat with the word Pervert written on it and these people were like, `There`s Satan! There`s Satan out with his kid!` And then I made a point of her wearing it every time we went there.”
Ewan McGregor
[ "actors", "children", "funny", "humor", "mistakes" ]
“He sniggered.He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now.”
Douglas Adams,
[ "funny", "humor", "laugh" ]
“Your on your on with this one babe.""Coward.""Calling me names isn't going to get me in there."-Ranger and Stephanie”
Janet Evanovich,
[ "funny", "ranger", "stephanie-plum" ]
“Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.”
Bette Davis
[ "funny" ]
“While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery period, the clincher being that, during that time, I would under no circumstances be able to use street drugs. Obviously I had to think of a more realistic approach.”
Chelsea Handler,
[ "drugs", "funny", "humor", "humorous" ]
“Guess we're going north," Dev said slowly."Everyone, follow Lassie.Timmy's in the well.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon,
[ "funny" ]
“They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it limped along in new boots that were chafing its heels. Blistered and cut, red and raw, every hopping, lopsided step, a little slice of agony.”
Marian Keyes,
[ "funny" ]
“May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.”
Roman Payne
[ "dying", "funny", "humor", "humour", "living", "men", "payne", "roman", "widows", "women" ]
“I walked in on my folks doing it doggy style less than four hours ago.""Waitress!" Jonas screamed, clicking his fingers madly. "Bring two!" then, more quietly,"You want a neck massage? A bedtime story? A bullet in the ear?”
MaryJanice Davidson,
[ "funny", "funny-and-random" ]
“You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire out its nose is one of them.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon,
[ "funny" ]
“We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.”
Glenn Beck
[ "funny", "political" ]
“He couldn’t just come right out with it, could he? No, that would scare her off. He had to be subtle, build up to it. Explain himself. “I love you.” Of course, straight to the point was also an effective strategy.”
Sarah Mayberry,
[ "funny", "humour", "love", "romance", "romantic-comedy" ]
“I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.Damn it, Lafayette.”
Lin Manuel Miranda
[ "french", "funny", "hamilton", "lafayette" ]
“Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where was the chivalry of yesteryear?”
Kate Carlisle,
[ "brooklyn", "funny", "kate-carlisle" ]
“Sounds like you kids have some talking to do. I'll be eavesdropping from the kitchen.”
Jill Shalvis,
[ "funny", "romance", "romantic-comedy" ]
“What is it? Tens, I can see the stick up your arse from here. I'm dying remember? Dying people don't have time for silly moods”
Amber Kizer,
[ "amber-kizer", "funny", "meridian", "mrs-fulbright" ]
“I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.”
Anne Stuart,
[ "dark", "funny" ]
“Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as ‘too long.”
Weston Locher,
[ "anecdote", "comedy", "essay", "funny", "humor" ]
“Lila!" he said cheerfully. "So you aren't a figment of my brothers imagination after all.”
V.E. Schwab,
[ "brothers", "funny", "imagination" ]
“But you won’t abdicate."Of course not. It’s my duty to go on, to maintain the line. I can’t possibly fail in that. It’s as if you and I were throwing a ball back and forth to establish a record, and had been doing so for a millennium. You cannot drop a ball that has remained airborne through good effort for most of a thousand years. You cannot stop an unlikely heart that has been beating for so long. I would rather die than betray continuity, for its own sake if for nothing else. And Britain needs a king, just as it needs motormen and cooks and a prime minister. Just as it needs soldiers who will die for it if they must. It’s my job, or it will be, but you should know that I’ve never wanted it. I was only born to it, as if with a deformity, to which I hope I can respond with grace."Fredericka had been running her finger over the carpet, tracing a pattern in the way children do when they have learnt something overwhelming and are moved, but cannot say so. Freddy expected her to look up, with tears, and that in this moment she might have begun the long and arduous process of becoming a queen. She was so beautiful. To embrace her now, with high emotion flowing from her physical majesty, was all he wanted in the world. Her finger stopped moving, and she turned her eyes to him.Freddy?"Yes?" he answered.What’s raw egg? I read a recipe in She that called for a cup of raw egg. What is that?"After a long silence, Freddy asked, "Which part of the formulation escapes you? Egg? Raw? The link between the two?"The two what?"Fredericka?"Yes, Freddy?"Would you like to go dancing?"Oh, yes Freddy!"Come then. We will.”
Mark Helprin,
[ "funny" ]
“Things Isabella Wouldn't Care About: - Titanic sinking again. - Metror striking Earth and landing directly on top of world's most innocent panda. - Titanic sinking again and this time the entire crew is puppies.”
Jim Benton,
[ "careless", "funny", "panda", "puppies", "titanic" ]
“Cole, for Christ's sake, will you stop staring at me like I'm beefcake of the month?”
Simon Holt,
[ "funny", "quinn", "simon-holt", "soulstice" ]
“Advice to explorers everywhere: if you would like to recieve due credit for your discoveries, keep a detailed account of your journeys as Columbus did. On Septemeber 28, 1492, after four weeks at sea, he writes: Dear diary...I means journal. Yes, dear journal. That's what I meant to say. Whew. Anyway, we have yet to discover America, and the crew has become increasingly rebellious. I have decided to turn back if we have not spotted it by Columbus Day. Will write again later if not killed by crew. P.S. Last night's buffet was fabulous, the ice sculptures magnificent.”
Cuthbert Soup,
[ "america", "columbus", "columbus-day", "diary", "discovering", "explorers", "funny", "ice-sculptures", "journal" ]
“The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.”
Annie Fellows Johnston
[ "ambition", "funny", "sophomoric" ]
“Wehehehehell, if it isn’t Ollie-Ollie-oxidant-free..."You can take…all the tea in China…put it in a big brown…bag for me.He’s as sweet as tupelo honey; he’s an angel of the first degree.Men with insight…men in granite…knights in armor bent on…chivalry.He’s as sweet as…tupelo honey; just like honey, baby…from the bee."=> For those who read and liked "When Irish eyes are sparkling"Can i have a musician here?”
Tom Collins
[ "funny" ]
“This social worker lassie turns round n gies us a stroppy look. Ah jist smiles bit she looked away aw fuckin nippy likes. Disnae cost nowt tae be social. A social worker thit cannae be fuckin social; that's nae good tae nae cunt, thon. Like a lifeguard thit cannae fuckin swim. Shouldnae be daein that kinday joab.”
Irvine Welsh,
[ "funny", "humanity", "humor", "jobs" ]
“Jev stroked his chin. "Do I look like a summer fling?”
Becca Fitzpatrick,
[ "funny", "humor", "jev", "nora-grey", "patch-cipriano" ]
“Answers to Frequently Asked Questions:Yes.Yes.No.One time in high school.Three times in my twenties.Rocks no salt.Yes.Four.Never. And how dare you!I will take no further questions.”
Ellen DeGeneres,
[ "faq", "funny" ]
“He seemed to be staring at the chain hanging from the ceiling fan. Seconds later, he confirmed this by reaching out and tugging the chain. Light clicked on.He tugged the chain again.Light went off.Oh for gods' sake, he had a mean case of ADD sometimes. "Apollo," I snapped.”
Jennifer L. Armentrout,
[ "apollo", "funny", "random", "seth", "the-return", "titans" ]
“They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.”
Rachel Caine,
[ "carpe-corpus", "claire-danvers", "funny", "humor", "myrnin", "rachel-caine" ]
“Alex the waiter was on my Spank Naughty list in third place, right after Henry Calvill the actor, then Henry Calvill as Superman. He was proof that God existed, and that God loved straight women.”
Penny Reid,
[ "funny" ]
“I happen to be a fantastic kisser. Sadly, you will never get to find out.”“Never say never,” he answers in a singsong voice.“Thanks for that, Justin Bieber. But yeah, not going to happen, dude.”
Elle Kennedy,
[ "funny" ]
“Oh. Momma told me not to tell you that your bed squeaks. But I think you know, 'cause I could hear it this morning. Jake dropped his fork. Tor, for the first time Jake had ever seen, turned scarlet. Maureen looked at them both and sighed. Christmas is always so interesting with you, Mark.”
Chris Owen,
[ "cowboy", "funny", "kids-humor", "m-m" ]
“Does he give you zings in your things?”
Penny Reid,
[ "funny" ]
“Regin the Radiant and Emmaline Troy: 'Alrighty then, have it your way- you're on your own... Now, if you come across a leech, no offense, remember your training.''None taken. And would that be the sword training where you fly past my defenses and swat me on the ass, chirping, 'Dead!'? Another swat. 'Dead!'? Yeah, I'll get right on that.''No, that would be the training where you sprint like hell whenever you hear that I'm looking for you to train.”
Kresley Cole,
[ "funny", "kresley-cole", "romance" ]
“It's a sweet setup, I'll admit. For all that the maids STILL show up each day with jumbo crucifixes, jumpy movements, and red eyes from crying over the short straw that drew them vampire duty.' Yesterday, she'd just stopped herself from raising her clenched hands above her head and chasing one of them around the room groaning, 'I vant to suck your blood.”
Kresley Cole,
[ "funny", "kresley-cole", "vampire", "vampires" ]
“I had a dream about you last night. Eons ago, we created a Universe, then sat back and watched miniature versions of ourselves try to make all the same mistakes we did.”
Michael Summers,
[ "dreaming", "dreams", "funny", "humor", "life", "relationships", "sleep", "sleeping" ]
“Zeb was kindergarten teacher--a good one. I always thought it was because he was the same emotional age as his students.”
Molly Harper,
[ "funny", "jane-jameson", "kindergarten", "maturity", "molly-harper", "nice-girls-don-t-have-fangs", "zeb" ]
“If a picture paints a thousand words, then a naked picture paints a thousand words without any vowels....”
Josh Stern,
[ "absurd", "funny", "humor", "naked", "paints", "picture", "vowels" ]
“Dave walked closer to me, his dark eyes combing my every move. "Do you always hold your guitar like that?"I dropped my pick. "Do you always shop at Hot Topic?”
Tara Kelly,
[ "funny", "humor", "music", "musicians" ]
“I've always been led to believe that the ultimate goal for an author is the movie deal. Now I understand that the movie deal is merely a MEANS TO A MUCH HIGHER END: NAIL POLISH.”
Kristin Cashore
[ "funny", "hunger-games", "nail-polish" ]
“No guest rooms.” I shake my head resolutely. “I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room.”
Lauren Oliver,
[ "funny", "living" ]
“Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combinedwith the imperative of accomplishing nothing.”
Alexander Theroux,
[ "funny" ]
“You want to stab me again, don't you?"He didn't look at all ashamed. "Think of it as testing the limits of your new abilities."I groaned. "I've created a monster.""I don't think someone who recently crawled from the grave should be throwing around labels like 'monster,'" he said, making sarcastic little air-quotes fingers. "It wasn't a grave," I sniffed. "It was a comfy four-poster.”
Molly Harper,
[ "four-poster", "funny", "jane-jameson", "molly-harper", "monster", "nice-girls-don-t-have-fangs", "zeb" ]
“I scoop a clattering cascade of green apple Jelly Bellys into the white paper bag and remember when we were seven. I got stung by a jellyfish. Tim cried because his mother, and mine, wouldn’t let him pee on my leg, which he’d heard was an antidote to the sting.”
Huntley Fitzpatrick,
[ "funny", "kids", "ya" ]
“You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger.""I have always considered that a good habit”
Scott Westerfeld,
[ "funny", "habits" ]
“Has anyone been corrupted or defiled?""Since the age of twelve," West said."I wasn't asking you, I was asking the girls.""Not yet," Cassandra replied cheerfully.”
Lisa Kleypas,
[ "funny", "kleypas", "the-ravenels", "victorian-era" ]
“I had a dream about you last night... You replaced all the people in your life with kittens. It felt more like a prediction of the future.”
Amy Summers,
[ "dreaming", "dreams", "funny", "humor", "life", "relationships", "sleep", "sleeping" ]
“I had a dream about you. You were on a bike going 70 miles an hour, I could see you approaching my car in the mirror. You were trying to say something so, I jumped on the brakes as hard as I could, I guess I forgot I had tied your bike on my bumper.”
Georgia Saratsioti,
[ "bicycle", "cars", "dreaming", "dreams", "funny", "humor", "mirror" ]
“I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was with good reason they called it Terror of the Zygons.”
Steve Berry,
[ "alien", "doctor-who", "funny", "humor", "tv", "youth", "zygon" ]
“An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.”
Peter Boghossian
[ "funny", "humor", "knowledge", "pretending", "rationalization", "theologian", "theology" ]
“I could always get by on a fake ID, calm face, and a smile. My sister could look guilty saying her prayers.”
Huntley Fitzpatrick,
[ "funny" ]
“I had a dream about you last night… it was raining and you were fishing for fire to set a sandcastle a flame.”
Nicole McKay,
[ "dreaming", "dreams", "funny", "humor", "life", "relationships", "sleep", "sleeping" ]
“I had a dream about you last night... you sat in a cardboard box and said you were a tree.”
Nicole McKay,
[ "dreaming", "dreams", "funny", "humor", "life", "relationships", "sleep", "sleeping" ]
“I had a dream about you last night... you were crying over spilt ink screaming "the words, the what could have been beautiful words.”
Nicole McKay,
[ "dreaming", "dreams", "funny", "humor", "life", "relationships", "sleep", "sleeping" ]
“I had a dream about you last night.. You pretended not to be a three hole punch.”
Amy Summers,
[ "dreaming", "dreams", "funny", "humor", "life", "relationships", "sleep", "sleeping" ]
“Sore loser? You bet your fuckin' ass! What on earth is wrong with being a sore loser? It shows you cared about whatever the contest was in the first place. Fuck losing graciously-that's for chumps. And losers, by the way.”
George Carlin,
[ "funny", "humor", "sore-loser" ]
“Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.”
Richard Paul Evans,
[ "blaming", "consent", "funny", "humor", "humour", "lighting", "locker", "school" ]
“This is the biggest damn IPod I've ever seen," Claire said, which made him choke on his beer. "Kidding. I have seen a jukebox before.”
Rachel Caine,
[ "claire-danvers", "feast-of-fools", "funny", "humor", "rachel-caine", "shane-collins" ]
“Kyo Sohma: angrily pointing at Yuki Just like I'll beat you one of these days Yuki: looking bored Wait wait I think I've heard this one before”
Natsuki Takaya
[ "cute", "fruits-basket", "funny", "kyo", "sohma", "yuki" ]
“You didn't have to go to the fireworks with him. Or - or let him fondle you.""Fondle?" Raisa raised her eyebrows, "When did I mention fondling?”
Cinda Williams Chima,
[ "amon", "funny", "raisa" ]
“Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt.”
Karen Miller
[ "books", "funny", "humor" ]
“A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.”
J. Michael Strazynski
[ "funny", "humor", "j-michael-strazynski", "story", "writing" ]
“That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off.The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay ”
Charles Dickens,
[ "court", "dickens", "funny", "heads", "humor" ]
“When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.”
Al Capone
[ "funny" ]
“He's all right. His hair is cute."Jonas froze, his lobster fork halfway to his mouth. " Oh my God, you're in love.""I'm not in love.""'his hair is cute'? You never say anything nice about anyone. Coming from you, cute hair is a mating call."" I talked to the guy for thirty seconds. And then he waved at me while i was in the tank.""Holy fuck, you're getting married, aren't you!"" Will you simmer. I certainly am not.”
MaryJanice Davidson,
[ "funny", "humour", "in-love" ]
“They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays."Oh, I am planning things," said Jamie. "Great, great things. I could join a band.""You gave up the guitar after two lessons.""Well," he said, "I could be a backup dancer.""Backup dancers have to wear belly shirts and glitter," said Mae. "So obviously, I support this plan.”
Sarah Rees Brennan,
[ "funny" ]
“(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?”
Victor Borge
[ "borge", "fat", "funny", "humor", "humorous", "opera", "piano", "singers", "victor", "victor-borge" ]
“Weetzie could see him--it was a man, a little man in a turban, with a jewel in his nose, harem pants, and curly-toed slippers. "Lanky Lizards!" Weetzie exclaimed."Greetings," said the man in an odd voice, a rich, dark purr."Oh, shit!" Weetzie said."I beg your pardon? Is that your wish?”
Francesca Lia Block,
[ "fifi", "funny", "genies", "humor", "weetzie-bat", "wishes" ]
“What the hell am I doing...? Escape holding myself as a hostage...? I won't be able to make it like that...”
Tsugumi Ohba
[ "funny", "humour", "stupidity" ]
“Maybe it was me," Grandma said."Sometimes they sneak out.Did I fart?”
Janet Evanovich,
[ "funny", "granmda-mazur", "humor", "stephanie-plum" ]
“Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy.”
Bauvard,
[ "class", "funny", "humanity", "humor" ]
“IMBECILE!" the chef shouted. "Next time why don't you just put your whole HAND in the food, hey? Yes, your whole hand, or maybe your FACE! I arrange the food on plates with care, are you understanding what I am telling you? It is part of the art form of cooking, yes? A lovely plate of food is a thing of beauty! And then you, NUMBSKULL, come along and put your fat greasy FINGERS all over my plate, and SHAKE the plate, and move my food all around the plate until it looks like pigs' vomit!""Chef Vlad!" I cried out in delight.”
Kenneth Oppel,
[ "funny", "humor", "kate", "matt", "skybreaker" ]
“Well," Ben went on,"someone should just tell her to come on home, because she can find the world's largest balls right here in Orlando, Florida. They're located in a special display case known as 'my scrotum.'" Radar laughed, and Ben continued. "I mean seriously. My balls are so big that when you order french fries from McDonald's, you can choose one of four sizes: small, medium,large, and my balls.”
John Green,
[ "funny" ]
“Then, almost as an afterthought, she turned and locked the bathroom door. If he thought he was going to seduce her, make her stupid enough to believe his lies by getting her into bed, he'd better think again. She stepped into the water. Besides, women didn't lose brain cells at the thought of sex. Only men did.”
Maggie Shayne,
[ "funny" ]
“Is there somebody out there? Amy, is that you?” her mother called.“No. Tell me this isn’t happening.” Quinn rested his forehead against hers. “Has she got a wiretap on you or something? I swear, she’s like a walking hard-on detector.”Amy bit her lip, trying not to laugh. Quinn levered himself up on his arms.“Mrs. P., if you value your life, you’ll go back inside and turn off the light right now.”
Sarah Mayberry,
[ "funny", "humour", "romance" ]
“Henry narrowed his eyes at me. "You going somewhere?""Lacrosse field trip," I said. "I enjoy whacking the hell out of people with mallets.”
Robin Benway,
[ "funny", "laughed" ]
“Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?""Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing I had died at childbirth.""Oh, you say that when you don't get a prize in your Lucky Charms.”
MaryJanice Davidson,
[ "freaking", "funny", "humour" ]
“Today vegetables. Tomorrow...the world!”
Deborah Howe
[ "funny" ]
“Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.”
Jack Benny
[ "funny" ]
“As we drove uptown, I spotted a Kmart on a corner,with its familiar red sign.I cleared my throat."Wait. Can we stop for a minute?""What for?""Just - I need a few things."He looked irritated, but pulled into a metered space. "We don't really have time to go shopping."I glared at him."yeah, excuse me for being so frivolous. You have your suitcase all packed already; I dont even have clean underwear.I'll be right back.”
L. A. Weatherly
[ "funny" ]
“Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on theroad an hour.”
Steven Wright
[ "funny", "humor" ]
“The only difference between me and a famous writer is that I do not want to be famous.”
Santosh Kalwar
[ "funny", "inspirational" ]
“I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.”
Steven Wright
[ "funny", "humor" ]
“Mom always said I was born to sit in the electric chair, but I'm proving her wrong. I'm going to die on my knees, begging for my life.”
Bauvard,
[ "death", "execution", "funny", "humor" ]
“It's a booley village," Ian told her. "The islanders used to take their animals into the hills for the summ. They'd camp out in these stone huts: men, women, and children. Everyone stayed up all night, sang, told stories, watched the stars. It must have been great craic." "How do you know this stuff?" she asked, admiringly. "I' a bloody genius." When she threw him a look, he grinned. " I also read it in the guidebook.”
O.R. Melling,
[ "funny" ]
“Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.”
Ellen DeGeneres,
[ "chairs", "funny", "truth" ]
“She made an impatient noise. "By the Angel, you don't know anything about your kid, do you? Do you even really know how vampires are made?""Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much ... ”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "cassandra-clare", "city-of-fallen-angels", "funny", "humor", "isabelle-lightwood", "simon-lewis", "the-mortal-instruments", "vampire" ]
“I know this is war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.”
Kristin Cashore,
[ "funny", "life", "party", "war" ]
“You’re sure you didn’t leave? Didn’t try to explore Thunder Bay again, maybe go down to the park and, I don’t know, dismember some poor jogger?”
Kendare Blake,
[ "funny", "murder", "sarcasm" ]
“A rap at the back door made her jump, and she peered through the window for a long time before she eased open the door a crack. She left the security chain on. 'What do you want, Richard?'Richard Morrell's police cruiser was parked in the drive. He hadn't flashed any lights or howled any sirens, so she supposed it wasn't an emergency, exactly. But she knew him well enough to know he didn't pay social visits, at least not to the Glass House.'Good question,' Richard said. 'I guess I want a nice girl who can cook, likes action movies, and looks good in short skirts. But I'll settle for you taking the chain off the door and letting me in.”
Rachel Caine,
[ "claire-danvers", "funny", "richard", "what-you-want" ]
“So what's the plan?” Ben asked.“Go inside. Look around. Improvise.”“Brilliant." Hi stroked his chin. “Quick question: Is having no plan the same as having a terrible plan, or are those different categories?”
Kathy Reichs,
[ "funny", "hi", "humor" ]
“Alec licked his spoon, then set it on the table and popped his drink open. "Okay, I may be breaking some kind of girl bonding rule or something, but can I offer you a guy's perspective on this?"I frowned, my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Is this gonna make me want to hit you?"He shrugged. "Maybe. But it's the truth. Here goes: kissing back is an instinct. Unless the girl smells like a sewer or has tentacles feeling you up independently, a guy's first instinct is to kiss back. That's how it works. What's important is how long that kissing back lasted. So...how long?”
Rachel Vincent,
[ "alec", "funny", "guys", "kissing-back-is-instinct" ]
“Fred and George exchanged looks."You don't mind if we don't kiss you, do you, Ron?" said Fred in a falsely anxious voice. "We could curtsy, if you like," said George. "Oh, shut up," said Ron, scowling at them.”
J.K. Rowling,
[ "fred-and-george-weasley", "funny", "harry-potter" ]
“Maybe you’re not so bad after all.’He leant across the seat, jabbing his finger in the air. ‘If you tell anyone, I’ll deny it. I have a reputation to uphold, you know.”
Catherine Doyle,
[ "funny", "love", "luca-falcone", "sophie-gracewell" ]
“Threat Level Fuchsia. Fuchsia!”
Charlie Cochet ,
[ "charlie-cochet", "dex", "funny", "humor", "thirds" ]
“Was it just her, or did lovers look more adoringly at each other in this city? Especially in the springtime.'Die, bastards.'She sighed. It wasn't their fault that they were bastards who should die.”
Kresley Cole,
[ "funny", "funny-quotes", "romance" ]