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People without a sense of humor will never forgive you for being funny.
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Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club)
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You’re not doing well and finally I don’t have to
pretend to be so interested in your on going tragedy,
but
I’ll rob the bank that gave you the impression that
money is more fruitful than words, and
I’ll cut holes in the ozone if it means you have one less day of rain.
I’ll walk you to the hospital,
I’ll wait in a white room that reeks of hand sanitizer and latex for the results from the MRI scan that tries to
locate the malady that keeps your mind guessing, and
I want to write you a poem every day until my hand breaks
and assure you that you’ll find your place,
it’s just
the world has a funny way of
hiding spots fertile enough for
bodies like yours to grow roots.
and
I miss you like a dart hits the iris of a bullseye,
or a train ticket screams 4:30 at 4:47, I
wanted to tell you that it’s my birthday on Thursday
and I would have wanted you to
give me the gift of your guts on the floor, one last time,
to see if you still had it in you.
I hope our ghosts aren’t eating you alive.
If I’m to speak for myself, I’ll tell you that
the universe is twice as big as we think it is
and you’re the only one that made that idea
less devastating.
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Lucas Regazzi
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Kneel before the king, Griff." I look around for the king. "Me, asshole. I'm the king. Who else would be the king? Wade?"
[...]
"On this rainy Thursday, I, King Theo of New York City, praise you, Sir Griffin of New York City, for your vast knowledge of fantasy novels I"ll never take the time to read myself. And for having the kind of laugh that I like hearing so much I would punch myself over and over if you found it funny.
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Adam Silvera (History Is All You Left Me)
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We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble.
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Jasper Fforde (Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2))
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I am determined to have the headache Thursday, if I have to hit myself with a rock to do it.
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Patricia C. Wrede (Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (Cecelia and Kate, #1))
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Where do you find a stomach on a Thursday afternoon in Reno? "Chinatown?" suggests someone. "Costco?" "Butcher Boys." Tracy pulls his phone from a pocket. "Hello, I'm from the university" - the catchall preamble for unorthodox inquiries.
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Mary Roach (Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal)
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I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.
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Jasper Fforde (Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2))
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It was a Wednesday, I think. Yes, a Wednesday, that miserable day sandwiched between the dreadful Monday and Tuesday and the 'all right' Thursday and Friday, which ultimately gave way to what I hoped woud be a glorious weekend.
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Gauri Jhangiani (The Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary People)
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Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps?
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Jasper Fforde (Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2))
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and Julia (I presume) has added in scratchy red, across this Thursday: COMMIT MURDER. Underneath it, I scribble as small as I can: Call FBI about Julia.
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Emily Henry (Funny Story)
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On this Thursday, on this particular walk to school, there was an old frog croaking in the stream behind the hedge as we went by.
'Can you hear him, Danny?'
'Yes,' I said,
'That is a bullfrog calling to his wife. He does it by blowing out his dewlap and letting it go with a burp.'
'What is a dewlap?' I asked.
'It's the loose skin on his throat. He can blow it up just like a balloon.'
'What happens when his wife hears him?'
'She goes hopping over to him. She is very happy to have been invited. But I'll tell you something very funny about the old bullfrog. He often becomes so pleased with the sound of his own voice that his wife has to nudge him several times before he'll stop his burping and turn round to hug her.'
That made me laugh.
'Dont laugh too loud,' he said, twinkling at me with his eyes. 'We men are not so very different from the bullfrog.
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Roald Dahl (Danny the Champion of the World)
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Instead of the calendrical terms Monday, Tuesday and so forth, we cheerfully offer the following surrogates. Use them freely and often, for their use honors us all. For Sunday, please use Sunshine. For Monday. pleasy use Monty. For Tuesday, please use Toes. For Wednesday, please use Wetty. For Thursday, please use Thurby. For Friday, please use Fribs. For Saturday, please use Satto-gatto.
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Mark Dunn (Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters)
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The atmosphere in the room was so thick with dramatic clichés you could have cut it with a knife.
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Jasper Fforde (The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3))
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This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays
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Douglas Adams
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So we were all witnesses to a murder" says Elizabeth "Which, needless to say, is wonderful
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Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1))
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I think Psychopaths wear lipstick too,' says Joyce.
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Richard Osman (The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4))
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Thursday, you mean everything to me. Not just because you're cute, smart, funny and have a devastatingly good figure and boobs to die for, but that you do right for right's sake - it's what you are and what you do. Even if I never get my magnum opus published, I will still die secure in the knowledge that my time on this planet was well-spent - giving support, love and security to someone who actually makes a difference.
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Jasper Fforde (First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5))
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Get yourself killed?" she asked with raised eyebrows, reminding me that Donnie had remained silent as I'd predicted. "Nope. Help funny little carnival clowns who are in trouble. Also, his wife hired me. If I don't bring her some kind of explanation, she might not pass the word about how awesome a P.I. I am.
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Wayne Lemmons (Not This Thursday (The Forgetful Detective Book 1))
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Need some help?” He reached for the books in her arms before she could object. “Hey ...” She looked like a viper ready to strike, but then her pupils dilated as she stared up at him. “I’m sorry ... do I know you?” “No.” He offered her a smile, hoping to settle her nerves. He didn’t speak to many women, but when he did, he always got that same staggered expression. “But you looked as though you needed a third hand.” “I don’t think I could manage if I were an octopus.” He laughed. Beautiful and a sense of humor. Most of the women he knew were too serious. “Funny. Are you off to another lecture?” “No ... I’m late for work. I keep telling my boss not to schedule me on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but he doesn’t listen, and then — sorry. TMI. I tend to ramble on, something the professors keep fussing at me about. Thanks. I sent the message, so I can carry my books now. I’m not up on all these new gadgets.” She waved her phone. “This is my first cell phone. I can’t afford it, but I really needed it. ” She smacked her hand over her mouth and reached for her books. “See ... I never shut up.” Derrick couldn’t help but smile. She was so cute. “I’ll walk you to your car. That way if your boss replies, you can respond quickly.” Her eyes narrowed this time, a look he wasn’t accustomed to; the few women he talked to trusted him completely. Even the female professors said he had a wonderful bedside manner. “Umm ... it’s okay. I take the T.” “Would you like a lift, then, so you aren’t late?” She shook her head. “No. Thank you. I appreciate it ... but I don’t even know you.” “Derrick Ashton.” He offered her his hand. The young woman hesitantly extended her slender, creamy-skinned hand. Her hand looked so small and delicate in his larger, olive-skinned hand. “Nice to meet you, Derrick. I’m Janelle Heskin. But still ... ” Derrick released her after a second and lifted his hands in front of him. “I’m harmless, I swear. They wouldn’t have accepted me into medical school if I had a record, and I’m here because I want to help people, and you looked like you needed help.” She
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Carmen DeSousa (Creatus (Creatus, #1))
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Pan again!" said Dr. Bull irritably. "You seem to think Pan is everything."
"So he is," said the Professor, "in Greek. He means everything."
"Don't forget," said the Secretary, looking down, "that he also means Panic.
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G.K. Chesterton (The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare)
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That's when Ibrahim joined us and suggested that DCI might try plates, and Donna said that was something she would pay to see. Ian Venham didn't want to join in the fun, and told Donna and DCI Hudson that he paid their wages. Donna said in that case could she ask him about a pay rise, and that's when Ventham started shouting the odds about this, that, and the other. People without a sense of humor will never forgive you for being funny. But that's an aside.
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Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1))
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People without a sense of humour will never forgive you for being funny.
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Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1))
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Joanna was funny and bright and engaging, and all the things I had worried that she’d lost. There they all were. Perhaps she had just lost them with me.
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Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club)
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And you've chosen, deliberately chosen, a woman architect, so I won't be allowed to shout.'
'You are shouting though, Ron,' says Elizabeth, who is two seats away, reading a newspaper.
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Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1))
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Hmm. Is this Bogdan's downside? He's a serial murderer? That would be tough to overlook. Not impossible though, given those shoulders.
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Richard Osman (The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3))
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his connection. 11 Feeling easy on the outside, But not so funny on the inside. Blue Öyster Cult, “This Ain’t the Summer of Love” Strike and Robin took turns tailing Platinum over the next couple of days. Strike made excuses to meet during the working day and insisted that Robin leave for home during daylight hours, when the Tube was still busy. On Thursday evening, Strike followed Platinum until the Russian was safely back under the ever-suspicious gaze of Two-Times, then
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Robert Galbraith (Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3))
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Jesus, Kash!” “What are you doing?” “What are you doing? Why are you just standing out here like a creeper?” He smirked and followed me over to my apartment. “I’m trying to figure out why you’re army-crawling all over the breezeway and shouting for a candy bar.” “I’m not shouting for a candy bar, I’m looking for a cat that isn’t there.” One of his thick eyebrows rose and he bit down on his lip ring to try to hide his smile as he held my door open for us. “Mrs. Adams . . . isn’t exactly all there. She thinks she has cats and she doesn’t. And every Thursday since we moved in, she’s come knocking at eight thirty asking for me to help her look for them.” “And you help her, knowing they aren’t there?” “Well, I didn’t know the first time until I got into her apartment. Her cats are really stuffed animals and pillows.” “But you helped her every other time knowing what you know?” He’d stopped biting on that ring and his lips kept tilting up as he tried to control his smile. “Yeah, Kash, I did. Because no one else does, and don’t laugh at me! It’s not funny, I feel really bad for her! You should see how upset she gets over this.” I turned to walk into my room, but he caught me around my waist and hauled my body back to his. “I’m not laughing at you, Rach,” he mumbled huskily, and his gray eyes roamed my face. “I think it’s adorable that you help her. You’re really just a big softy, aren’t you?” Laughing when I growled at him, he continued to piss me off even more. “You’re like Sour Patch Kids candy.” “What the hell?” “Sour . . . then sweet.” “I will castrate you if you don’t let me go right now.
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Molly McAdams (Forgiving Lies (Forgiving Lies, #1))
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Mrs. Panabaker is ten years older than God and probably smarter. She stops into the offices every other Thursday to tell my dad what she didn't like about his sermon the previous Sunday. She makes fudge-covered marshmallows at Christmas time and force feeds them to anyone too slow to escape. I've never seen her out of a suit dress and floral scarf, and on Sundays she always wears a matching hat. Last week was a salmon-colored number, and her hat was draped in fake fruit. I wanted to try to eat one of the grapes just to see what she'd do, but I value my life.
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A.C. Williams
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[...] but blowing a man's head off from four feet away probably doesn't suit everyone. It wouldn't suit me, and it doesn't suit Poppy. Actually, perhaps it would suit me? You never know until you try, do you? I never thought I would like dark chocolate, for example.
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Richard Osman (The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2))
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More women are murdering people these days,' says Joyce. 'If you ignore the context, it is a real sign of progress.
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Richard Osman (The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2))
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Sure,' says Ron. 'She wants to kill me. Bake her some scones.
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Richard Osman (The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4))
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If he doesn't ride in on a motorbike, I shall be very disappointed.
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Richard Osman (The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4))
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He will not be out-machoed.
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Richard Osman (The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4))
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And I know what you're thinking, but, again, he's not my type. I wish that he was.
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Richard Osman (The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4))
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But from the moment he had pointed his gun at her they both knew it was love.
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Richard Osman (The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4))
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So DCI Hudson explained the legal niceties to me, and warned that he would be forced to arrest anyone who blocked the diggers. I said that I was sure he wouldn’t actually arrest anyone, and he agreed that this was true. So there we were, back to square one. Ron then asked DCI Hudson if he was proud of himself, and DCI Hudson replied that he was an overweight fifty-one-year-old divorcé, and so, by and large, no, he wasn’t. This made Donna smile. She likes him—not like that, but she likes him. I do too. I was going to say to him that he wasn’t overweight, but he actually is a bit, and as a nurse, it’s best to never sugarcoat things, even when your instinct is to be protective. Instead I told him he should never eat after six p.m.—that’s the key if you don’t want diabetes—and he thanked me. That’s when Ibrahim joined us and suggested that DCI Hudson might try Pilates, and Donna said that was something she would pay to see. Ian Ventham didn’t want to join in the fun, and told Donna and DCI Hudson that he paid their wages. Donna said in that case could she ask him about a pay rise, and that’s when Ventham started shouting the odds about this, that, and the other. People without a sense of humor will never forgive you for being funny. But that’s an aside. Anyway, Ibrahim, who is very good with this sort of thing—conflict and inadequate men and stalemates and so on—stepped in and offered to “thin the crowd out” to give everyone a bit of breathing space.
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Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club)
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His authentic indifference seems to delight them.
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Richard Osman (The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4))
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Joanna was funny and bight and engaging, and all the things I had worried that she'd lost. There they all were. Perhaps she had just lost them with me.
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Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1))
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People without a sense of humor will never forgive you for being funny. But
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Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club)
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Isaac Asimov said, “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka,’ but ‘That’s funny.
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Joe Sanok (Thursday is the New Friday: How to Work Fewer Hours, Make More Money, and Spend Time Doing What You Want)
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To say “That’s funny,” a few things need to happen: You have to notice, which means you are spending time observing new things. You have to compare what happens in front of you to what you believe. You have to step into that tension.
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Joe Sanok (Thursday is the New Friday: How to Work Fewer Hours, Make More Money, and Spend Time Doing What You Want)
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Ian Ventham didn’t want to join in the fun, and told Donna and DCI Hudson that he paid their wages. Donna said in that case could she ask him about a pay rise, and that’s when Ventham started shouting the odds about this, that, and the other. People without a sense of humor will never forgive you for being funny. But
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Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club)
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Elizabeth shrugs. “What is it with men and handsome? Wouldn’t you rather be kind and clever and funny and brave than handsome?” “No,” says Ron.
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Richard Osman (The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2))
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You are looking at a fool," he said, "I am a reasonable man, a comparatively intelligent man - IQ one hundred and eighty-two, University of Chicago, Master's and Ph.D. An informed man in his own field and not ignorant in some other fields. Regard this man!" he said. "He is about to pay a formal call on a girl in a boiler. He has a half-pound box of chocolates for her. This man is scared stiff. Why? I'll tell you why. He is afraid this girl will not approve of him. He is terrified of her. He knows this is funny, but he cannot laugh at it.
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John Steinbeck (Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2))
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I read that if mankind doesn't stop eating meat, there will be mass starvation by 2050 ... I do hope they sort it out.
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Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1))
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Emperor Zhark may have been the embodiment of terror across innumerable star systems, but he lived with his mum- and if the rumours were correct, she still insisted on bathing him.
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Jasper Fforde (First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5))
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Funny to think of the year 2000 as ancient history.
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Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1))
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People without a sense of humor will never forgive you for being funny. But that’s an aside.
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Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club)
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Inviting a goblin to cross your threshold was a recipe for disaster, and certainly worse than doing the same with a vampire. With the latter all you got was a nasty bite, but the company, the extraordinarily good sex and the funny stories more than made up for it—apparently.
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Jasper Fforde (One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6))