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My vagina has just found a new best friend
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Olivia Cunning (Take Me (One Night with Sole Regret, #3))
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Val and Ruth had been friends forever, for so long that Val was used to being the overshadowed one, the "normal" one, the one who set up the witty one-liners, not the one who delivered them. She liked that role; it made her feel safe. Robin to Ruth's Batman. Chewbaca to her Han Solo.
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Holly Black (Valiant (Modern Faerie Tales, #2))
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Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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While others look at her surface, a true friend searches for her depth.
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Giovannie de Sadeleer
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At some point in 2009, one of my recovering alcoholic friends told me a one-liner that goes like this: “When a codependent is drowning, somebody else’s life flashes before his eyes.” That struck me as too true to be funny, and
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Stephen King (Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2))
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Leibniz wrote letters as we write e-mails. Over his life he sent fifteen thousand letters to eleven hundred people. To this day, they have yet to be fully cataloged. And these weren’t tossed-off one-liners; many were extended essays that broke open whole new areas of science and mathematics. Like today’s frazzled e-mailers, Leibniz complained about information overload. “I cannot tell you how extraordinarily distracted and spread out I am,” he wrote to a friend.
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George Musser (Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything)
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many ratty Kmart bras I needed to replace with ones that could actually hold my tits up; so many albums with actual liner notes to replace the ones my friends had dubbed for me. Finally, I could read the lyrics to all those Portishead songs I was kind of making up in my head! I wish I could say that I bought some fly shit and a fancy ride, but really I just bought a lot of Gap shirts and name-brand sodas. I’ma assume some broke people are reading this and you know what I mean. I was making it rain dollar bills as I worked my way through the aisles at the Jewel, filling my cart with grape Crush and DiGiorno pizzas and CINNAMON TOAST MOTHERFUCKING CRUNCH.
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Samantha Irby (We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.)
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Humor can be such a good way to hide anger at racist, sexist degradation and to challenge white male authority sideways—without risking as much direct blowback—that it perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise that the comedian Tina Fey wrote jokes about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual predation—lines about being pinned under Weinstein, and turning down sex with him—that aired on her show 30 Rock in 2012, years before his behavior could be reported straight. In 2013, during the Oscars, the white male comedian Seth MacFarlane also made a Weinstein joke—about the lead actress nominees no longer having to pretend to be attracted to the producer. After 2017 reporting revealed the extent of Weinstein’s predation, MacFarlane explained that a friend of his, an actress who’d been harassed by Weinstein, had confided in him, prompting his joke. “Make no mistake,” he said at the time, his one-liner had come “from a place of loathing and anger.
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Rebecca Traister (Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger)
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First time they met was on a cruise, if you think of “cruise” in maybe more of a specialized way. In the wake of her separation, back in what still isn’t quite The Day, from her then husband, Horst Loeffler, after too many hours indoors with the blinds drawn listening on endless repeat to Stevie Nicks singing “Landslide” on a compilation tape she ignored the rest of, drinking horrible Crown Royal Shirley Temples and chasing them with more grenadine directly from the bottle and going through a bushel per day of Kleenex, Maxine finally allowed her friend Heidi to convince her that a Caribbean cruise would somehow upgrade her mental prognosis. One day she went sniffling down the hall from her office and into the In ’n’ Out Travel Agency, where she found undusted surfaces, beat-up furniture, a disheveled model of an ocean liner that shared a number of design elements with RMS Titanic. “You’re in luck. We’ve just had a . . .” Long pause, no eye contact. “Cancellation,” suggested Maxine. “You could say.” The price was irresistible. To anyone in their right mind, too much so.
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Thomas Pynchon (Bleeding Edge)
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Harry sent ten different puns to a friend in the hope that at least one of the puns would make him laugh. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.
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Stephen Arnott (Man Walks into a Bar: Over 6,000 of the Most Hilarious Jokes, Funniest Insults and Gut-Busting One-Liners)
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Always cherish fertile soil.
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Giovannie de Sadeleer
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Dunno.' And then I put the phone down - not on a smart, crushing one-liner, or after a raging torrent of abuse, but on a 'dunno'. that's taught him a lesson he won't forget.
HIM: Good, so how should we leave it then?
ME: I've already left it, you pathetic little twerp. Liz is quite right about you. [slams receiver down.]
HIM: Good, so how should we leave it then?
ME: We won't leave it, Ian. or at least, I won't. I'd change your phone number, if I were you. I'd change your address. One day soon you'll look back on one visit to the house and ten phone calls a night as a golden age. Watch your step, boy. [slams receiver down].
HIM: But I'd like to think that if she decided she didn't want to see me any more, I'd respect that decision.
ME: If she decided she didn't want to see you any more, I'd respect that decision. I'd respect her. Her friends would respect her. Everybody would cheer. The world would be a better place.
HIM: This is Ian, Ray.
ME: Fuck off. [slams receiver down].
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Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)
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shit. I’ve just got back from the funeral of my best friend. He died after being hit on the head with a tennis ball. It was a lovely service. Death is nature’s way of saying ‘Slow down’. I intend to live forever……or die trying. What happens when you get scared half to death twice? A man has died after falling into a vat of coffee. It was instant. A Chinese man faked his death but his family were suspicious. They didn’t bereave him. I saw an ad for burial plots. I thought to myself ‘That’s the last thing I need’. I met a Dutch girl with inflatable shoes last week and phoned her up to arrange a date. Unfortunately, she’d popped her clogs. My grandad gave me some sound advice on his deathbed. He said that it’s worth shelling out on good speakers. A friend of mine always wanted to be run over by a steam train. When it happened, he was chuffed to bits. The man who invented Velcro has died. RIP. A Mexican stuntman died while making a film. At his funeral, his mother approached the director and said ‘Jesus died for your scenes’. The Grim Reaper came for me last night and I beat him
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Graham Cann (1001 One-Liners and Short Jokes: The Ultimate Collection of the Funniest, Laugh-Out-Loud Rib-Ticklers (1001 Jokes and Puns))